hi their a friend of mine (rich and doesnt know what hes doing) has a rig with 10 hdds in and for a while now it has been slow,ive told him to defrag the hdds but he said that it deletes all the files and doesnt make any speed difference (i know it doesnt delete files).how much of a difference would it make if he de fragged it and show him this thread as he doesnt belive me that it makes a difference
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They don't delete files, they just move 'em about a bit in an attempt to reduce access times. SSDs should never be defragged.
I use Defraggler, the same as linwelin - free and seems to do a good job. The built in Windows one is definitely alright if you/he don't/doesn't want to install a different one.
Your pal doesn't have to take my/our word for it though, there'll no doubt be plenty of info out there on defragging and what the benefits are.
Maybe his system might benefit from a good registry cleaner, personally I quite like Tune-up Utilities, free for a month.
Edit: Some stuff about defragging here http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question548.htm
I use Defraggler, the same as linwelin - free and seems to do a good job. The built in Windows one is definitely alright if you/he don't/doesn't want to install a different one.
Your pal doesn't have to take my/our word for it though, there'll no doubt be plenty of info out there on defragging and what the benefits are.
Maybe his system might benefit from a good registry cleaner, personally I quite like Tune-up Utilities, free for a month.
Edit: Some stuff about defragging here http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question548.htm
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I've always favoured AUSlogics disk defragger
This, it can make a big differencem as all it does it moves files into order so windows can find them faster.
If the HDD supports NCQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing) then performance of de-fragmented file access won't suffer as badly as older HDD's.
My view defrag is worth running after new applications are installed, or you've copied a lot of data that won't be changing for a while.
However if a HDD is having a lot of constant data changes, then especially with NCQ it's normally not worth the extra HDD wear and risk to any data.
My view defrag is worth running after new applications are installed, or you've copied a lot of data that won't be changing for a while.
However if a HDD is having a lot of constant data changes, then especially with NCQ it's normally not worth the extra HDD wear and risk to any data.
1st: Educate your friend (if he isn't know it all) on what disk defragging does.
2nd: Get him to do the disk cleanup before defragging, and ditching all the temporary internet files as those vastly increase the defrag time if not deleted first.
3rd: Run defrag and leave to complete.
4th: Restart machine
5th: Be happy at result.
6th: Don't assume that the degradation in performance is due to the disks being fragmented. Further investigation is needed to determine the route cause.
With point 6 in mind... what exactly are you defining as slow? What are the symptoms?
2nd: Get him to do the disk cleanup before defragging, and ditching all the temporary internet files as those vastly increase the defrag time if not deleted first.
3rd: Run defrag and leave to complete.
4th: Restart machine
5th: Be happy at result.
6th: Don't assume that the degradation in performance is due to the disks being fragmented. Further investigation is needed to determine the route cause.
With point 6 in mind... what exactly are you defining as slow? What are the symptoms?
must be 12 years + since i felt the need to use one