Do you defrag?

by compound complex 30 Replies latest watchtower scandals

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Dove, dual core refers to the processing unit--we're talking about the storage unit. If a processor is an engine, a hard drive is a gas tank.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    It's defragging the paging file that does the trick for me.

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    Whatever, it's fast enough with high speed Internet. It seems fast enough like that without getting onto the Internet, too. I'm good. It must be an automatic defragger and most of the stuff I want to save is on a flash, anyway. I'm not THAT kind of scientist! *runs away screaming*

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32
    It's defragging the paging file that does the trick for me.

    Any time I set up a system I configure the paging file to be a static size (on XP anyway). Never gets fragmented that way.

  • The Almighty Homer
    The Almighty Homer

    Defragging your hard drive will be a thing of the past as Solid State drives become the dominant choice in Data storage and transfer.

    I have one now operating as my main storage drive and I think they're just great.

  • SirNose586
    SirNose586

    I use JKdefrag. Since my HD wasn't ever really slow, it doesn't make that big of a difference.

  • GromitSK
    GromitSK

    It may be me but I cannot see why having a solid state drive will prevent storage fragmentation.

    In my experience fragmentation becomes more of a problem when the disk is more than 90% full and the amount of RAM is low as the processor struggles to find sufficient space to page and swap. A fixed pre-allocated page file always seemed a good idea to me especially if it was much bigger than the physical RAM. Blimey this has taken me right back to the beginning of my career in IT lol.

  • zombie dub
    zombie dub
    I use JKdefrag. Since my HD wasn't ever really slow, it doesn't make that big of a difference.

    Very good defragger - try MyDefrag too - its the updated JKdefrag - http://www.mydefrag.com/

    It may be me but I cannot see why having a solid state drive will prevent storage fragmentation.

    AFAIK an SSD will still be fragmented, it just doesn't matter as it doesn't store things on moving platters where location matters, i.e. it should take the same time to retrieve from anywhere on the SSD, whereas on a normal hard drive it takes time to move around the platters, so files should all be in the same place on the drive,

  • GromitSK
    GromitSK

    Thanks Zombie that makes sense.

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    That's a rather PERSONAL question, isn't it?

    ...but yes, I do. I rather enjoy it.

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