Some questions about sleep mode and defrag in Windows 7
I generally almost never turn my desktop computer off due to using it so frequently, so instead I put it in sleep mode as opposed to turning it off.
My question is a (A) is this wise in the long run and (B), while I heard this prolongs hard drive life, does it negatively affect the life of any of the other components of the computer (like the power button light, which never really shuts off)
Also, I'm an avid fan of the program WinContig and I use it to defragment on a very frequent basis, to the point I run a defragmentation in between playing PC games, downloading files (before I open them), and even inbetween internet sessions almost religiously, and I was wondering if this a (A) wise in the long run to again extend hard drive life, or (B) if its is wise, is there a better defragmentation program available?
My question is a (A) is this wise in the long run and (B), while I heard this prolongs hard drive life, does it negatively affect the life of any of the other components of the computer (like the power button light, which never really shuts off)
Also, I'm an avid fan of the program WinContig and I use it to defragment on a very frequent basis, to the point I run a defragmentation in between playing PC games, downloading files (before I open them), and even inbetween internet sessions almost religiously, and I was wondering if this a (A) wise in the long run to again extend hard drive life, or (B) if its is wise, is there a better defragmentation program available?
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And as for the life of the power LED.
Lol, just lol.
Anyway, I meant to clarify I play a lot of games that have lots of mods and I modify them constantly, and I also do a lot of mod downloading, so I only defrag after doing a lot of large downloads, after mod editing, or after playing games prone to heavy save file fragmenting.
That said, it is still foolish?
I also tend to selectively defrag areas of the hard drive prone to defragmentation as opposed to doing regular full drive scans (like my Fallout New Vegas Data folder and the Users folders, so is that still foolish?
And it's really not necessary to defrag so much, especially with Windows 7.
On that note, I use texture/mesh optimizers to make certain mods use less VRAM/memory (they work like massive batch files, optimizing all the files in a folder at once), and after optimization I almost always have hundreds of fragmented files.
And, if what I'm hearing is true, it is stupid to defrag after installing entire programs (like Fallout New Vegas)?
Leaving things "fragmented" isn't particularly bad, it's just cluttered. If there are frequently-accessed files that end up split far across the drive platter, then it may cause more read-time than necessary, but ultimately it's not going to do a ton. It basically depends on the type of files, i.e. quantity vs. size, in the filesystem as well. Other people here could probably explain it more thoroughly or accurately, I rarely defrag as I think ext4 does something like that automatically. And I never remember to on Windows. :P
Hope it was helpful