The M$ defrag is a cut down version of Executive Software's Diskeeper. It isn't all that good but better than nothing - though the full version of Diskeeper is good for workstation (desktop) use. I defrag around every 5-7 days and it DOES make a difference, mainly with our larger pro audio & video files (gigs each). M$ used a version of Norton back in the DOS 5/6 days
Wearing out the HDD is a furphy - any decent webserver is continually running defrag in the background otherwise the server would very quickly grind to snail's pace.
Oceanz
Last edited by Oceanz; 13th December 2006 at 05:01.
Reason: To add Norton info