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Hi, i have 1tb hdd, and i was wondering when i should defrag it. All i do is play games and watch youtube, and do schoolwork, so i analyze my c drive, the only drive once a week, at what percent should i defrag it., right now it's at 5%, keep in mind i disabled windows from auto defragging
 
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from windows 7 on there is absolutely nothing wrong with the "awful built in" windows mechanism.ive used a lot of defrag tools over the years and right now i let windows do it. when to defrag is up to you. whatever defragger you use let it analyze your disk first to see the level of fragmentation. keep in mind that generally win7 (dont know about 8) doesnt seem to need near as much defragging as previous versions.
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when ever you feel like it. I haven't actually noticed slow downs from fragmentation till well after 50%. but that's actually noticing it. I'm sure that benchmarks could show a consistent slowing that correlates with how fragmented it is.
 
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Turn on defragging, if it goes more than 15%, time of defragging your disk will be more than 2~3 hours
 
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If you decide to drag, use a better tool than the awful built-in Windows mechanism.
I use defraggler, much faster, and it's free.

Ian.

PS. Or use a decent 256GB SSD for the C-drive, reserve mechanicals for sensible files like movies, etc.

 
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from windows 7 on there is absolutely nothing wrong with the "awful built in" windows mechanism.ive used a lot of defrag tools over the years and right now i let windows do it. when to defrag is up to you. whatever defragger you use let it analyze your disk first to see the level of fragmentation. keep in mind that generally win7 (dont know about 8) doesnt seem to need near as much defragging as previous versions.
 
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I don't like the Windows defrag program because it's slow and often fails to fully defrag a drive. I've found
defraggler to be a lot faster, though I don't set it to run automatically. spooky2th is right though, using an
SSD instead is an even better answer - I only use mechanical drives now for general data, etc. No need to
get an expensive top-end SSD though, the gains beyond a decent midrange model are minimal for most
users. I bag older top-end models when I can for testing as they're still near the top of the performance
charts, especially the OCZ Vector (won a new 128GB recently for only 36 UKP).

Ian.

 
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