Does anybody defragment their hard disk anymore?

I used to run a defrag weekly back when I had Windows 2000 and XP. Since going to Vista and now 7, I've largely forgotten it and have not noticed a real difference. So, what's your experience ?

 

Ok, so for me it would have been Yes, No and No because i have a SSD.

I defrag the HDDs in my G73 and desktop once in a while, but not very often. When my N50 had a HDD in it, i never defragged and of course i don't defrag SSDs, that would be plain stupidity.

EDIT: BTW, minimal differences between defragged and not defraggged on 7.

EDIT: Voted yes since i do defrag, but i still fill in the other two scenarios.

 

Yes, I do defrag once in a while just for the sake of doing it.

I have just one partition in my 500 GB hard drive, so there is no need to defrag that often.

 

Yes. Automagically.

 

Yes I do, the SSD + HDD setup still includes a HDD

 

With my SSD I don't defrag anymore, though I used to do it quite often with my HDD back in the day like maybe once a month.

 

The last system I defragged haD XP... Just went to Ubuntu on my Dell so thanks Charles, I can add this question to my list of 50 about Ubuntu/Linux!

 

Hey Chaz, long time no see!

No I don't defragment anymore, but I have noticed that one old laptop with Win7 32 bit and dualcore was visibly quicker after Auslogics defragmenter.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I have an SSD so NO, but when i used an HDD i used the free iobit smart defrag, it runs in the background keeping your hdd running smooth.

John.

 

Windows 7 do a great job itself, never brother do to a manual one. Scheduled one is always on, but IDK if it ever go.

 

I do it from time to time. But haven't done so in the last 3-4 months. Thanks for reminding .

 

I believe Windows Vista / 7 now does a background defrag whenever the computer becomes idle. I don't remember where I read that, so don't quote me on this just yet.

To answer the question, I have not done a defrag ever since I upgraded to Windows 7.

 

Win 7 is set by default to defrag automatically in the background.

 

Found that there is a service that performs disk defragmentation. On my work machine, it has an SSD so Win7 marked it as a manually activated service. I bet if it was a traditional spinner it would have marked this service as "automatic". Good to know its there.

 

Very occasionally, it should help a little but I can't say I've noticed any difference since switching from FAT to NTFS. I remember waching the blocks move on the old 98SE defrag. Kinda relaxing....

You probably know it isn't really necessary, but on very full drives fragmentation can occur. Never needed to do it tho'.

 

The auto defrag is scheduled in windows 7 afaik so if the computer is off when it's supposed to run, either it's no defrag or it will wait for idle time, don't know which one.

 

I have auto-defrag set in my Win 7, however I load, and delete programs often, so I also run a manual defrag once a month. When I do the manual, I run the analyze disk first. If it tells me that any % is fragmented, I run the defrag, otherwise I leave it alone until the next month.

I agree with the user who said the Win 98 defrag was very soothing. I used to start it up, and watch all the blocks being moved, then pretty soon I'd be sleeping. When I awoke 4 hours later, the defrag still hadn't finished. :laugh:

 

I defrag my hard drive for thrills. <-- song reference

Actually though, I voted yes but it's pretty rare. I haven't defragged my desktop because the hard drive is huge and not all that fragmented yet. It also has an SSD. I think I have defragged my laptop's partitions in the past 6 months, but not more than once. And maybe it was 6-12 months ago. And even when things do get uber-fragmented, I can't tell a huge difference after defragmenting.

I also kind of liked the Windows 98 defragging screen. Just enough movement to mesmerize you, but sufficiently little to be relaxing.

 

I always keep my spinner 90%full with constant torrent, yet to see fragmentation go up more than 5% when I analyze it.

 

I let Win 7 do its thing and it runs fine. Although pretty much all my systems now have an SSD for the boot drive at least.

 

Lol, havent heard that song in a while.

"I got me a hundred gigabytes of ram, I never feed trolls and I don’t read spam.
Installed a T-1 line in my house, always at my PC, double-clicking on my mizouse."

Good times.. Anyways, got a SSD a while back so no defrag for me. I run it on the ancient desktop back home and my gf's laptop from time to time.

 

Windows 7 which is scheduled once a week always says 0% fragmentation but I recently analyzed with JkDefragPortable and it said I was 7% fragmented.

 

Reformatting your HDD and reinstalling windows... defragging... Same thing

 

Nope. I've got an SSD running. Though I still have an HDD for my videos and music, I don't bother defragging it because I don't think it's worth it.

 

I haven't in awhile. My XP/Linux desktop still runs smoothly. On my Macbook pro I never defraged on either OSX (heard it was not needed on OSX, don't know how true that is) or Win7.

 

I had not noticed any improvements on my previous laptop before/after defragging. I was on W7.

 

(automatically)

disks are at 0% fragmentation according to disk defragmenter, scheduled defragmentation is on the default setting (1AM wednesday).

I never noticed or set it, or had to think about it.

 

answer is yes=)
opera browser has a lot of fragmented *.temp files in cache

 

On my HDD's, yes. And for some reason I've long forgotten I use:

JkDefrag v3.36

 

I used Smart Defrag once a week.

To be honest, I don't notice any difference in performance, but do it anyways since it's considered healthy for my computer.

 

I have an SSD, I miss my weekly defrag

John.