Defrag harddrive to much?

thelostsoul

thelostsoul

thelostsoul

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Hi,
Does defragging your harddrive too often reduce the life of your harddrive, its just i remember reading about it somewhere that it actually did. Is it true?.
Thanks.
 
Any activity of your hard drive counts towards it MTBF count.

However once defragged correctly your hard drive activity should be reduced.

Swings and roundabouts really as a drive that needs defragging a lot is being used a lot more than one that doesnt. Hence the life of the drive is going to be less (defrag or not)
 
Like Gandalf501 says you are adding load to your drive by using it and defragging is more intensive and sustained than most ordinary use but as pointed out it should lead to greater efficiency and therefore slightly less wear.

I haven't bothered defragging any of my hard drives for the past 5 years or so because I figure by the time the system is particularly in need of defragging the registry is probably also going to be in a mess and a clean install is probably less hassle and will take the same time or less. That is just my take on it though and I wouldn't necessarily advise it to everyone :)
 
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