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rayz321
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 Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: can defragging you computer too much damage you hd? |
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i am just wondering i heard it somewhere and googled but they say it hurts but i am wondering how much it really hurts you hd?
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W8Baby
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: can defragging you computer too much damage you hd? |
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| rayz321 wrote: | | i am just wondering i heard it somewhere and googled but they say it hurts but i am wondering how much it really hurts you hd? |
No because it just basally just cleans all your files.
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xV
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| Quote: | Myth No. 4: You can wear out your hard drive if you defragment too often.
Not true. The truth is, your drive is going to work much harder if you never defrag at all! It is a common misconception that defragmentation is stressful to disk drives. In reality, fragmentation results in many more disk accesses.
Here is an example: If you have a file that is fragmented into 50 pieces, and you access it twice a day for a week, that's a total of 700 disk accesses (50 x 2 x 7). Defragmenting the file may cost 100 disk accesses (50 reads + 50 writes), but thereafter only one disk access will be required to use the file. That's 14 disk accesses over the course of a week (2 x 7), plus 100 for the defragmentation process = 114 total. 700 accesses for the fragmented computer versus 114 for the defragmented computer - the benefits are obvious.
Install Diskeeper and get longer-lasting, more reliable disk drives in addition to peak performance from your computer all the time. |
http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/myths/hard-drive-wear.aspx
You should also try and take your own advice, if you're going to preach it.
| rayz321 wrote: | no problem but dude please do me a favor
i mean this in no offensive way but dude use ****ing www.google.com that is all i used |
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rayz321
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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hey guess what i did search but i found a few sites liek cnet i think that said it did hurt it so i just wanted to ask here
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Icklorfin
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| rayz321 wrote: | | hey guess what i did search but i found a few sites liek cnet i think that said it did hurt it so i just wanted to ask here |
Thats what they all say, and even if they do search, the people they are telling to may have searched too.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| It does in the long run.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| xV wrote: | | Quote: | Myth No. 4: You can wear out your hard drive if you defragment too often.
Not true. The truth is, your drive is going to work much harder if you never defrag at all! It is a common misconception that defragmentation is stressful to disk drives. In reality, fragmentation results in many more disk accesses.
Here is an example: If you have a file that is fragmented into 50 pieces, and you access it twice a day for a week, that's a total of 700 disk accesses (50 x 2 x 7). Defragmenting the file may cost 100 disk accesses (50 reads + 50 writes), but thereafter only one disk access will be required to use the file. That's 14 disk accesses over the course of a week (2 x 7), plus 100 for the defragmentation process = 114 total. 700 accesses for the fragmented computer versus 114 for the defragmented computer - the benefits are obvious.
Install Diskeeper and get longer-lasting, more reliable disk drives in addition to peak performance from your computer all the time. |
http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/myths/hard-drive-wear.aspx
You should also try and take your own advice, if you're going to preach it.
| rayz321 wrote: | no problem but dude please do me a favor
i mean this in no offensive way but dude use ****ing www.google.com that is all i used |
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Yeah, I agree with the last part but the site you posted seems to look like advertising for their product Diskeeper, and of course they're not gonna say that defragmenting your HDD is bad for it when they're selling defragmentation software
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