How often to Defrag?

[joseph]

Windows XP, Cubase SX3.0, BFD...
2 seperate HDs, one for the OS, the other for project files.

Have noticed that when I defrag as per the "You need to defrag this drive", I'll have a glitch or two...last was relatively minor, had to re-set some BFD options.

Do you Defrag on a regular basis even when the "analyzer" says "You do not need to defragment this drive at this time.",
and does that decrease the glitches?
Thanks for your input.

[Denyle_Guitars]

I'll usually let mine go until it's below 90 %. If you're using Win defrag, check out some 3rd party defrags.

[MichaelK]

When I was on PC I used Norton Speed Disk because, unlike Drefrag, it verifies everything it writes. Only use it AFTER backing up.

I used to do it every week or so, when I was paying attention.

Now I use Speed Disk for Mac on my audio hard drives, again about every week... after backing up!!

[joseph]

Originally posted by MichaelK
When I was on PC I used Norton Speed Disk because, unlike Drefrag, it verifies everything it writes. Only use it AFTER backing up.

I used to do it every week or so, when I was paying attention.

Now I use Speed Disk for Mac on my audio hard drives, again about every week... after backing up!!


Thanks. Do you back up to CD-DVDs, or an external hard-drive via USB?

[MichaelK]

Originally posted by joseph
Thanks. Do you back up to CD-DVDs, or an external hard-drive via USB?
Tape drive for the system drive and archival, 2 firewire hard drives for the audio day-to-day.