JJ wrote:
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.
Ummm ... defragging is a "good thing"!
If your drive is getting fragmented really quickly then you are probably messing with lots of little files or running an app that deals with lots of little bits of files (Bittorrent and P2P apps are good ones for fragmenting a drive quickly) .. to ease the pain a bit you could get the apps in question to work on another drive (rather than your main boot drive), or you could look at reformatting your drive with a different block size, gets to be a bit of a balancing act when you do that though (wasted space vs performance etc).
Just my NZ$0.02 :-)
