Defrag is useless?

[Caius]

What do you think?It is usefull of useless?

Discuss

There are much to discuss, but give a try

[x-dANGEr]

Useful.

EDIT:

But to what degree, depends on the filled space of the Hard Disk I think.

[edyzmedieval]

IMHO, Defrag only counts on a small HDD and on a low-end computer. Powerful computers don't necessarily need defrag too often.

[Caius]

It liberate space on disk?

[BlackAxe3001]

Defrag is very useful. I use diskeeper and it works wonders. What defrag does it take files that should be next to each other and places them next to each other. Yeah... lol. It also moves everything together on the drive so that the read/write heads don't have to look all over the platters for files that should all be together. It increases performance to some degree. I defrag every night and it makes a difference.

To improve file access by rearranging data so that whole files are stored in contiguous sectors on a hard disk.

That sums it up better.

[doc_bean]

I defrag every night and it makes a difference.

Err..doesn't defragging damage the HD (ever so slightly) ?

[Xiahou]

It can be very useful. A PC with a severely fragmented system drive will crawl.

[LeftEyeNine]

Try Perfect Disk before jumping to conclusions about defragging being unnecessary.