Comments on: How To Maximize Hard Disk Life http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-maximize-hard-disk-life/ Hardware reviews and Tutorials Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blackhawk http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-maximize-hard-disk-life/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Blackhawk Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:33:50 +0000 http://www.digitgeek.com/?p=576#comment-836 just FYI: I actually use a commercial automatic defragmenter, and really like it. It has freed me from having to even think about scheduling or manually initiating defrag operations on my 2 TB drive array that sees quite a bit of action (P2P, games, digicam photos etc). Contrary to popular belief, it does not defrag the drives 'continuously'; infact, after the initial defrag run, it kicks in only for a total of a few minutes each day to clear up that day's fragments. So absolutely no problem there. Incidentally, it uses idle system resources to defrag in real-time, so it never interferes with what I am doing. Based on my experiences, I'd have no hesitation in recommending it :) just FYI: I actually use a commercial automatic defragmenter, and really like it. It has freed me from having to even think about scheduling or manually initiating defrag operations on my 2 TB drive array that sees quite a bit of action (P2P, games, digicam photos etc).

Contrary to popular belief, it does not defrag the drives ‘continuously’; infact, after the initial defrag run, it kicks in only for a total of a few minutes each day to clear up that day’s fragments. So absolutely no problem there. Incidentally, it uses idle system resources to defrag in real-time, so it never interferes with what I am doing. Based on my experiences, I’d have no hesitation in recommending it :)

]]> By: Ankur Gupta http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-maximize-hard-disk-life/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Ankur Gupta Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:01:25 +0000 http://www.digitgeek.com/?p=576#comment-821 Tredntested,Thank You for your comments. Autodefraggers although do the job but I would not recommend them. One does not need to continously keep defragmenting the hard disk. It needs to be carried out once or twice a month depending on the level of defragmentation. Tredntested,Thank You for your comments.
Autodefraggers although do the job but I would not recommend them.
One does not need to continously keep defragmenting the hard disk.
It needs to be carried out once or twice a month depending on the level of defragmentation.

]]> By: Triedntested http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-maximize-hard-disk-life/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Triedntested Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:58:21 +0000 http://www.digitgeek.com/?p=576#comment-820 Great article! Its so important to defragment and cleanup regularly, reduces performance deterioration and helps prevent premature hardware upgrades. Its much easier to do a defrag now since there are automatic defraggers that do the job very well with no manual intervention. Great article! Its so important to defragment and cleanup regularly, reduces performance deterioration and helps prevent premature hardware upgrades. Its much easier to do a defrag now since there are automatic defraggers that do the job very well with no manual intervention.

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