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Defragging Sansa E200 series in Vista
j8048188:
if you REALLY INSIST on defragging your sansa in Vista, make sure you have sp1 installed. it allows you to choose which volume you wish to defragment.
Angus_NB:
--- Quote from: Llorean on July 22, 2008, 07:24:05 AM ---...
Edit: It's been noted that having a defragmented drive (on HD targets) is beneficial for recording, as it's possible to experience buffer underruns if fragmentation is too bad.
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My comment was general pertaining to every day use. For music/video recording and large graphics work a clean defragged drive is noticeably faster and more reliable. A dedicated drive is best for this type of work.
I agree, this topic belongs on another forum. :)
kaxx:
Hmmm, excellent info. I defrag my Hard Drives constantly (At Least twice weekly) and had no idea I was doing them basically no good.
I'm glad I asked here, the flash drive formatting being damaging makes sense after you all explained it so I shall never do it again. Thanks for the tips/info.
ThaCrip:
about the defragging stuff...
yeah like they said above defraging anything flash related is pretty much useless cause even though it appears to windows as being fragmented ... to the drive itself it randomly writes out to different parts so it extends the life of the flash drive instead of acting like a hard drive and just writing to the first part and 2nd part and so on in order like a hard drive pretty much works.
but as far as hard drive defraging ... i use a free program called JKDefrag ... but anyways i think defraging a hard drive periodically (maybe 1 time per month or quarterly (every 3 months or so)) cant be a bad thing especially if your deleting and adding files to the hard drive at the same time as that can fragment stuff fairly bad in a case like that.
but in general i would probably recommend say after you formatted your pc (i.e. clean install of windows) and get all your basic programs installed... i would do a defrag of the hard drive and then after that do one about 1 time per 3months or so.
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