Shutdown After Defrag?

[Hazardous]

Regarding to defragmenting, I used to think it's useless operation. However, when I my harddrives started to lag and I analyzed them I found "some" defragmentation. I had used that particular drive as a game drive and still had some games in there, and since my video drive ran out of space I moved some big video files into the games drive. Three files, all 600+ megs, were defragmented into more than 1000 fragments

So that did explain the lagging a bit, and changed my opinions on defragmenting.

[jeffy777]

Originally Posted by hokiethang

Not to mention, that those 3000 hours a year go to a very worthy cause, Folding .

Then by all means, leave it go all night I think if you actually have your cmputer doing something (like sharing files) then it's perfectly fine to leave it on all the time, but if it's just sitting there idle, then I prefer to shut it on down. But you mentioned that in actuallity it's probably shortening the life of the hardware, so maybe I should reconsider...

[ruuman]

Originally Posted by Hazardous

Regarding to defragmenting, I used to think it's useless operation. However, when I my harddrives started to lag and I analyzed them I found "some" defragmentation. I had used that particular drive as a game drive and still had some games in there, and since my video drive ran out of space I moved some big video files into the games drive. Three files, all 600+ megs, were defragmented into more than 1000 fragments

So that did explain the lagging a bit, and changed my opinions on defragmenting.

Another benifit is you can also gain a fair amount of spare hard disk space, defraging is seriosuly recommend. When you do it try to make sure you have minimal programs running as this could pontentially lock files and thus not do a thorough job.