My hard drive keeps fragmenting badly for no reason?

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TamerPC

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I'm really not sure, Also I got a 1 TB hard drive and it keeps fragmenting, I defragmented it many times but it keeps doing it? (Could be broken idk good way to test) Does it bottleneck my amd rx 480 it's from sapphire, 8gb version. Also I have 16 gb ram so that shouldn't be the problem. I just feel like I can get much more performance then that i'm getting right now.

Please someone help me!
 
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CountMike
That's still nothing or as close to it as possible. Only when it hits 15% you have a chance of seeing some difference. Stop doing it so often, you'll just wear it out. W7 and up do very little fragmentation and have regular maintenance defrag.
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viewtyjoe

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The important thing to note is the Fragmentation Rate over on the right side. That 0.54% means that .54% of all files on the drive are fragmented. I'd imagine you're not going to get much lower than that, honestly.

And no, hard drives generally don't have any serious effect in gaming outside of load times.
 
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TamerPC

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So basically that means that 10k fragments is not any sort of problem it's only the rate?
 
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jsmithepa

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Yeah, it's never fast enough, or big enough ^)

You picked up something, and as usual with new users, you taking it to the deep end.

Stop obsessing about it. With all the re-arranging you doing, u wearing that thing down.

Get a SSD, then you wouldn't even have to bother to defrag it.
 
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Cole_9

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well... to answer your question, first off, 5GB of drive fragmentation is not bad at all if you have a 1 TB drive, and bottlenecks are almost ALWAYS caused by the CPU and GPU. let me ask you. Do you Download and delete files all the time on your PC? Because from my understanding, what causes drive fragmentation is usualy when files get out of order. so say you just deleted a file and then you want to install a game. When you delete the file, the file gets deleted. simple. However, of you then try to install a large file on the drive, part of that data will go where the file you just deleted went, but once that space gets filled up, the data then gets placed somewhere else on the drive. To keep the drive from getting badly fragmented over time, just defrag every 2 weeks or so.
 
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TamerPC

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I defrag every day, sometimes I defrag after 1 week.. Because I can notice speed differences when starting windows / games
 
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TamerPC

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Thats something I thought off doing but haven't got the time for buying one..

 
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CountMike

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That's still nothing or as close to it as possible. Only when it hits 15% you have a chance of seeing some difference. Stop doing it so often, you'll just wear it out. W7 and up do very little fragmentation and have regular maintenance defrag.
 
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