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    Default Defrag is useless?

    What do you think?It is usefull of useless?

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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

    Useful.

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    But to what degree, depends on the filled space of the Hard Disk I think.
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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

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

    It liberate space on disk?




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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

    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.

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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

    Quote Originally Posted by BlackAxe3001
    I defrag every night and it makes a difference.

    Err..doesn't defragging damage the HD (ever so slightly) ?
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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

    It can be very useful. A PC with a severely fragmented system drive will crawl.
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    Default Re: Defrag is useless?

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

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