Defrag Me
 

I just dug up an old screenshot laying in my hard drive at work.


http://i34.tinypic.com/r0xrmb.jpg


When I was first hired, I noticed there was a bit of latency when reading and saving files. I figured I'd run a defrag.. so I opened up the defrag tool, ran an analyze operation... I almost fell out of my chair. I don't think this hard drive had ever been defragmented before I was hired. The poor thing.

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You should`ve do that hard drive a favour and shoot it with a shotgun. It would be less painfull than defragmentation. :p

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Too bad it's property of this school district..

:(

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Say it was for insurance puposes.

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w0w xD
your a hero doing that xD

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Say it was for the greater good. Hold on, i'll fetch a picture of my harddrives fragmentation once i find the tool(Stupid default Vista Defragger doesn't show it)
Ready?
http://forums.filefront.com/attachme...1&d=1218579970
I'm going to guess an estimated time of 1-3 weeks to defrag that.

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Just wondering, how bored to you have to be to take a prtscrn of your computer defragging?

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*pulls out a shotgun and aims it at Serio`s hard drive* Just say the word, man. My trigger finger is getting itchy anyway. :p

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Well.

uh.

i've never seen a harddrive that fragmented. I thought I'd keep it as a souvenir.

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i loled xD on this xD

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I take pictures of lamps if they give a special light...
Don't worry, it's been isolated and is being treated for Excessive Fragtmentation. Takes 1 hour only.

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Naw, I just think it's like a last effort to stave away the boredom. Pack rat behaviour too, saving pics of silly stuff like that.

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Hold on, i'll grab a picture of my pictures folder then!

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But... but... I want to shoot something! :bawl: :D

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Keep guard then!

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That's not a lot, that's like only 500 files.

I have over 7400 images i use for 3d model references.

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Actually, it's only 290. Bah!

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I thank this thread for reminding me that never is not an option.

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If you're going to defrag, i recommend SmartDefrag by IObit.

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I use TuneUp for my computer's health.

I also run a defrag when I install a game and once a month. Registry weekly and shredding daily.

As for those pics, the owners need a lesson on basic computer management.

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I use CCleaner, Advanced WindowsCare V2, and SmartDefrag.

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One of the greatest freeware programs out there.

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Yeah. The bits and pieces CCleaner leaves behind, Advanced WindowsCare takes care of.

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CCleaner
tried and tested ^^

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Ladies and Gentlemen. This is the same harddrive 1 hour later;
http://forums.filefront.com/attachme...1&d=1218584813
See? Those fragmented files are simply my documents and the like.

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Still needs some defragmentation. :)

http://i38.tinypic.com/i3wgwl.jpg

Purple = Non-movable files. (System files, I believe.)
Red = Fragmented
Blue = Defragmented

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I defragment with the format option every year or two. Which reminds me I need to go and buy another HD so I can backup my files again.

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Well, it seems like it'll take 5 hours to do another Defrag. Good thing about CCleaner; Vista only allows 1 Uninstall at a time. CCleaner allows up to 5.

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My file system does not fragment. I love the ext3 file system.

I got 45gb of music and 2500 pictures. I had close to 60gb of music at one point.

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I don't believe I've defragmented since May when my computer decided to reformat itself.

When I first ran Vista I was amazed at how Microsoft seemed to take a step backward with the Defragment utility. Windows 2000 visually showed the state of your hard drive, but Vista was barely a pop-up box without any information. At least it's better than Windows ME. I tried defragging a couple of times and after three or more days they had not finished, and that was with a 37.2 gb harddrive.

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Should we be celebrating or something?? The glorious success of letting his computer run and defrag itself. I'd bring cake but I'm on a diet.

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Try using Auslogics Disk Defrag. It's free, fast and thorough at defragging, though not quite as thorough at compacting as the built in Windows one.

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Lol, some pretty poor super fragmented HD's have been shown here. Poor things should be put out of their missery indeed. =p I guess that for some users an auto defrag option, enabled by default would really be required to prevent this poor HD torture across the globe.

Speaking of defraging, I think I'll format my laptop, it is a year old now and I tend to format my computer every year or so

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OMG, neglected laptop HDs are even worse considering how hot they run. If I had a laptop I would get a laptop cooler to go under it and use it whenever running CPU intensive tasks like lengthy defrags.

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You people scare me =(

My system partition currently looks like that (the red files being mostly from Firefox's cache) :

http://forums.filefront.com/attachme...chmentid=65735

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*falls out of chair* damn... i think you should go with the shotgun...

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I must admit that's a lot of undefragged files.

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w0w .
gaspo that thing

gas and posporo lol xD

burn it hehe

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I don't think that 20,000 files is a lot, I've got over five times that on a single 60gb partition (100,000 so far). With still more files elsewhere.

I <3 EXT3!!!

I've gotten so used to Ext3, and Reiserfs, that I've forgotten to defrag my Windows Partitions for probably three years now... And the main one is a *gasp* Fat32 partition. The one mentioned above... 80k+ on a Fat32 partition, which hasn't been defragged. Now that is scary...

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That Ultimate Defrag not only looks cool, it optimizes the speed of your HD by allowing you to place some files in the outer part of the disc. I was wondering why the graph is disc shaped, makes sense. I think I'll give it a try.

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Uh? I defraged it two times during the year.