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My view is when you defrag, if its done in minutes then you are doing it too often!, if it takes several hours then you are not doing it often enough. :)
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New #13
Defragmenting does put extra stress on your drive for a short amount of time. But as Bills link explains, this nothing compared to the extra stress of having to find files on a fragmented hard drive.
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pacinitaly, its all up to you. The best thing to do is go by percentage. If its less than 5% fragmented, don't bother. 5-15%, it's up to you. more than 15%, you need to go ahead and do it. But those are just the numbers I go by. Different people will have different preferences. Those numbers should just give you something to go on.
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Aren't we all running Windows 7? Who manually defrags anymore? Honestly, I do it once after a fresh install, once I load up all my apps, and that's about it. The defragger runs automatically and keeps the drive nice and tidy for you. However, with regular use on a system that might be powered off at night, not running the auto-defrag, you still shouldn't be seeing much at all. Gone are the days of needed to manually defrag. As it is said many many times...Windows 7 is not XP.
My advice? Defrag once, and then let the system handle it. Maybe every 3 months or so I'll give it a check to see if there's any issues, but that's it. Welcome to the world of self-maintaining and self-tuning OSes.
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