Is It Bad To Constantly Disk Defrag?
These days, it probably does more harm than good to defrag daily. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard the term “defrag your hard drive” as a cure-all for any problem a computer had (now replaced by “you have a virus”). That was often a fall-back the technician had when he couldn’t figure out what was really going on with the system. In reality, even back in the day of Windows 95 running FAT32, even on a heavily used system, you rarely had to defrag more than once a week. Most systems wouldn’t benefit that much even if it were defragged once a month. Defrag gave noticeable results on older file systems that were used in Windows 95, 98, ME. Since Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and now, Windows 7, most people use the NTFS file system. This type of file system isn’t as sensitive to fragmentation of the hard drive. The NTFS file system is a very efficient way to store and retrieve files that doesn’t really require defragging. Also, hard drive speeds and head seek times have sped up si
