Question about CPUs. (Warning: A stupid one)

[jj]

Stop........De-fraging a hard-drive is pointless.  It will take hours and hours, and you will not notice the real world difference (apart from the old its supposed to be faster so it is effect).  you will never gain back the time lost in de-fraging in a performance gain.  And guess what as soon as you have de-fragged the drive it gets fragmented again.  

[jj]

Ok do it once every few years.  Never bother doing as  some suggest regurarly.  It is a waste of time.

[jj]

@Piru

Thanks for the link to the pagefile defragger cause we all know that a fragmented pagefile does cause a real world performance hit and windows defragger does not defrag the pagefile as it is in use when the defragger is running.

Schedule to run in lunchbreak?

You must have a small hardrive or a really long lunchbreak :lol:  Wonder how long it would take to defrag my more or less full 250gig sata HDD.  Im guessing awhile

[jj]

I have to agree with tomas.

I still own the first HDD I ever bought which was a 200 odd MB seagate.  Still works fine now.  Cost me nearly £350.

You got to love progress , that was well over a £1 per MB and now these days we are talking 20p per GB  

[jj]

@ tomas

no I am not clueless, if you look at the time it takes to defrag a large harddrive (and I am not talking about if you are sleeping etc) just about the actual time.  You will NEVER get that time back in speed increase.

And how often would you suggest defragging your HDD.  Because very very quickly after a defrag you will get to the same stage again.

Lets take a user who uses their PC mostly for gaming.  They are not going to be writing a lot of data back to the disk, the only thing that get fragmented wouldd be the pagefile.  As previoulsy discussed the windows defragger (that most people would use) cant defrag this.  So where would be the advantage of defragging

[jj]

Ok then prehaps I should have said in some cases de-fragging your harddrives is not always nessecary  :-D

[jj]

Think my problem in the past is I have used windows defragger whicch taked for ever and quite often the disk is as fragmented after using it as before