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Solved Disk Defrag, Reducing Hard Disk Noise

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Hi,

Just a quick question fellas, will hard disk defragment reduce noise level on the hard disk? Knowing it’s a healthy drive.

Thanks in advance.

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      With a platter drive not SSD, the noise is reduced marginally with a defrag because the drive does not have to work as hard to find data.

      If your hdd is making exceptrional noise it is because it is an old drive that has been used extensively and is nearing its “use by date” or it has a fault in the mechanism. You should back up the drive periodically to an external hdd if you have data that is of importance to you. Purchase a new drive when possible and do a Files & Transfer to the new drive.

      In ther meantime, do a CHKDSK /F in the cmd run box dialog to check and fix the drive of errors. If you have any bad sectors, the OS will kick up errors about Page_Fault.

      Usually, though, if you do extensive programming or Video editing/compiling, those type of projects do give harsh impact on a hdd as it is using a lot of resources to do the chore so you will hear a type of grinding or whirring noise during the compilation.

      Also, too many Virtual drives will also give problems to a hdd as the virtual drives do exist as part of the “Free Space” of a hdd.

      As well as, if you run your PC as a server for games then that, too, will impact on the hddd and its capabilities to cope.

      If the Defrag Analyse shows only 10% fragmentation then it is advisable to do a defrag even though the message syas it is not warranted. 10% is rather a large amoun lkike an 80gb hdd, it would be 8gb of fragmentations. Better to defrag a small amount (might take about 5 to 20 minutes) than waiting for 6 hours to defrag at 30% or more.

      Try to ensure that your Primary drive has at least 15% Free Space to allow proficiency of the OS.

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