How often do I Defragment my HDD ??

[kizoku_95]

What is considered the optimum period of time in which we should at least defragment our HDDs atleast once ?

[ttam]

It's not really needed.

[SirRoderick]

If you're running Win7 or 8 chances are you're already doing so automatically.

[Flojer0]

I usually double check every month or so and defrag if the fragmentation is above something like 2%. Mostly it's just to feel better. If you leave your computer on all the time it is probably  being ran once a week automatically. If you don't then you will need to run it manually once in a while.

[sanderdegrote]

I have it set up to do it once a month, normally windows 7/8 do it automatically.

[Purple]

Every Wednesday night at 4 am.

[lilc]

Windows does it automatically every week for me.

[DudeWazap]

Every Wednesday night at 4 am.

But that may interfere with all night gaming.  B)

[Torg73]

On my desktop I never do as its SSD for my OS and the other 2 HHD don't really need too, I am also running windows 8 so....

 

On my aging netbook I try to do it monthly about the same time I run CCleaner to tidy the drive up.

[FlakeyBanana]

I use an ssd so never?

But you can just set it in windows

[Cohacq]

If you download Defraggler, you can set it to defrag automatically at set times, or on boot. If you move around stuff a lot, do it about once a month or so.

[CAKEwasTRUE]

i sometimes do it, after deleting and moving stuff!

[LogicalDrm]

I don't defrag unless fragmentation is over 9-10%. After that it get noticable.