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@ knowname
2009-09-05 16:08:01
The problem here is that you assume that hard drive failures are caused by defraging or that the user is doing something wrong. It has nothing to do with it. Just because you never had a hard drive crash and you don't defrag doesn't make it the reason. You are just lucky or haven't had a one long enough. I hardly ever defrag, i don't think i've ran it once in 4 or 5 years. I have also been through my fair share of hard drive crashes. I'm also using hard drives that are 5+ years old while one i purchased less then two years ago crashed earlier this year.
There are too many factors that contribute. Simply turning your computer on and off will cause the life span of the hard drive to lower. I would go so far to say that a hard drive being used in ideal conditions wont die because of just usage. Heat is probably the number one cause of failure. If usage was a leading cause, then defraging would help prevent failure so you cannot say that it's a cause. - One more thing... 2009-09-04 17:46:45 Technically fragmentation *can* take up disk space but the amount taken up is way too small in a world where we are using terabytes now instead of gigabytes.
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uhg...
2009-09-04 17:38:28
Knowname is an idiot, don't listen to him.
#1 Defraging one's computer will not ruin your hard drive. It just makes your hard drive work for an hour, nothing different then editing for another. In fact, its better to have a disk that's defragmented in our case (as video editors). When using very large files, you don't want your hard drive seeking all over the place all the time. A defrag just before editing a new video would most likely do more good to your hard drive then not doing it. I don't defrag though, it's not really needed unless i'm using a FAT file system. Knowname's reasons are incorrect.
#2 using a separate disk for clips/editing sources is a good idea, not because of fragmentation. Even if your system is fragmented, using the same disk for editing will make the hard do more work then needed. You have your source, OS files, program files, page files and cache all on the same disk in different areas. During a simple rendering process your hard drive will be moving all over the place. If it was fragmented, or in the process of creating fragments (while writing the finished render to disk or writing temp files) then it would be worse. The advantage of having multiple drives is to separate these files so one drive isn't doing all the work. This is why I have one drive for my system and programs and another drive (or two) for the page files, and a single drive for all of my editing source.
#3 your whole statement about SSDs and defragmenting is bogus. The only reason not use an SDD for editing would be because it's too expensive. The problem, which isn't really a problem anymore, is that SSDs get slower as they get older. There are firmware patches for this and for the most part, it's no longer an issue. - @shinodude 2009-04-21 01:41:46 you're joking right? that is incredibly fucked up. this state is so fucked if they wont take blood (to save people's lives mind you) from a gay man... so fucked up.
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