How often do you defrag?

[Kevrapley]

Hey everyone,

I am just interested in how often you all defragment your hard drives. We are all design professionals using very large and numerous files so obviously fragmentation happens regularly and at a greater volume than perhaps your average IT professional. I personally incur massive slowdowns if I don't keep on top of it and would love to know how you all combat this problem.

Kevin Rapley.

[adbart]

I guess you should do it weekly if you want to stay on top of it.

I'm far too lazy though, on my own computer I do it every couple of months (sometimes I just re-install Windows), lol.

[Kevrapley]

Exactly what I used to do until recently. I just couldn't understand why I kept getting slow downs. My firewall was good, free of viruses etc. The built in defragger took a whole day to get the job done so I took a look around and got hold of an automatic defragger which now does the job for me every day. So far so good and everything seems to be running smoothly.

[KeithO]

i run disk cleanup and defrag monthly. things have run smooth.

[netman4ttm]

Microsoft's robocopy is better than most defrag's. We partition our drives so data is on the second partition. Then just copy the data to a network drive, delete it then run robocopy in the create mode to setup the directories and then in normal mode to actually move data back on to the drive.

[Alshurf]

Originally Posted by adbart

I guess you should do it weekly if you want to stay on top of it.

I'm far too lazy though, on my own computer I do it every couple of months (sometimes I just re-install Windows), lol.

I suppose it`s no sense to make a defragmentation every week - monthly but not more often