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MahlerIsGod · 11-07-2006, 02:22 PM

Greetings TFP,
Is Defragging too hard on your harddrive to do it piecemeal? 10 minutes here while I in the shower, an hour there while I am out running errands, etc. Is it just better to do it all at once? Thanks!

Dilbert1234567 · 11-07-2006, 03:57 PM

it will take longer, but if all you can spare is a bit here and there, thats life. it will not effect the life span of the drive by any mesurable amount.

Sage · 11-07-2006, 05:37 PM

Defragging bit by bit doesn't do any good. In the meantime (when you're not defragging), it's just getting more fragmented, negating any good that you did while you were out. Set it up and let it run while you're asleep or something

Dilbert1234567 · 11-07-2006, 06:27 PM

yes, you can defrag bit by bit, however, it takes longer overall because there is lead in and lead out time that is compounded.

however, it is faster to do it all at once. if your drive is really fragmented, and full, try copying some of the files off, then defrag it, then copy them back.

1010011010 · 11-07-2006, 06:52 PM

Do you sleep? Seems the obvious time to defrag or do any time intensive computer operation.

11-07-2006, 02:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
MahlerIsGod At The Globe Showing Will How Its Done Location: London/Elysium	A Defragging Question Greetings TFP, Is Defragging too hard on your harddrive to do it piecemeal? 10 minutes here while I in the shower, an hour there while I am out running errands, etc. Is it just better to do it all at once? Thanks! __________________ "But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."

11-07-2006, 03:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	it will take longer, but if all you can spare is a bit here and there, thats life. it will not effect the life span of the drive by any mesurable amount. __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

11-07-2006, 05:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sage hoarding all the big girl panties since 2005 Location: North side	Defragging bit by bit doesn't do any good. In the meantime (when you're not defragging), it's just getting more fragmented, negating any good that you did while you were out. Set it up and let it run while you're asleep or something __________________ Sage knows our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous -C'hi

11-07-2006, 06:27 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	yes, you can defrag bit by bit, however, it takes longer overall because there is lead in and lead out time that is compounded. however, it is faster to do it all at once. if your drive is really fragmented, and full, try copying some of the files off, then defrag it, then copy them back. __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

11-07-2006, 06:52 PM	#5 (permalink)
1010011010 Psycho Location: Virginia Beach, VA	Do you sleep? Seems the obvious time to defrag or do any time intensive computer operation. __________________ *Simple Machines in Higher Dimensions*