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Hard drive about to fail ; Should I defrag it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Venustus" data-source="post: 481926" data-attributes="member: 4295"><p>Defragmenting once in a blue moon will not reduce you drive's lifespan,but doing it too often is unecesessary and will reduce the lifespan of your drive,because of the read and write intensive aspects of defragmenting!</p><p>Nevertheless the low cost of mechanical drives today means that you can replace a drive easily,but you need to have a good backup of your data!</p><p>Even new drives can fail for no apparent reason,it happened to me!!As i said above if you are a gamer,you will notice a benefit,because texture loading in games will be faster as the seek time will be less on a fully and correctly defragmented drive!</p><p>You can even just defragment a particular folder if you want to,such as your steam folder,if you play games!</p><p>I hope I have not sounded ambiguous in my explanation!!</p><p>Cheers!!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Venustus, post: 481926, member: 4295"] Defragmenting once in a blue moon will not reduce you drive's lifespan,but doing it too often is unecesessary and will reduce the lifespan of your drive,because of the read and write intensive aspects of defragmenting! Nevertheless the low cost of mechanical drives today means that you can replace a drive easily,but you need to have a good backup of your data! Even new drives can fail for no apparent reason,it happened to me!!As i said above if you are a gamer,you will notice a benefit,because texture loading in games will be faster as the seek time will be less on a fully and correctly defragmented drive! You can even just defragment a particular folder if you want to,such as your steam folder,if you play games! I hope I have not sounded ambiguous in my explanation!! Cheers!!:) [/QUOTE]
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