Comments on: Defrag, scan disk, and deleting cookies don’t do much http://helpmerick.com/defrag-scan-disk-and-deleting-cookies-dont-do-much.htm Easy to understand computer help Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/defrag-scan-disk-and-deleting-cookies-dont-do-much.htm/comment-page-#comment-3523 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2144#comment-3523 FYI, until recently my 250 GB drive stuffed with photos from my dslr easily used to reach more than 10% fragmentation within a matter of days. Run batch jobs on large sets using photoshop or a raw converter, and you'll quickly see red all over the drive. It's quite irritating working with a badly fragmented drive full of relatively small files (3MB-20MB). As for "too much work for too little performance increase", I haven't had to defrag manually or schedule defrags for the 4 drives in my 1.5TB setup for the past few months. I simply installed an automatic defragmenter and that was it; it's been running smoothly ever since. It handles all the defrag related stuff on it's own without requiring any input from me. BTW chkdsk is useful for checking file system errors; it need not be run regularly because it provides no performance benefit. FYI, until recently my 250 GB drive stuffed with photos from my dslr easily used to reach more than 10% fragmentation within a matter of days. Run batch jobs on large sets using photoshop or a raw converter, and you’ll quickly see red all over the drive. It’s quite irritating working with a badly fragmented drive full of relatively small files (3MB-20MB).

As for “too much work for too little performance increase”, I haven’t had to defrag manually or schedule defrags for the 4 drives in my 1.5TB setup for the past few months. I simply installed an automatic defragmenter and that was it; it’s been running smoothly ever since. It handles all the defrag related stuff on it’s own without requiring any input from me.

BTW chkdsk is useful for checking file system errors; it need not be run regularly because it provides no performance benefit.

]]> By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/defrag-scan-disk-and-deleting-cookies-dont-do-much.htm/comment-page-#comment-3524 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2144#comment-3524 So, where do I find an Automatic Defragmenter? Do I need to worry about my disk defragmenter disappearing from my computer? Thanks. So, where do I find an Automatic Defragmenter? Do I need to worry about my disk defragmenter disappearing from my computer?
Thanks.

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