4/4/2014
razor
Hello--
 
I want to setup some schedules for defragging my hard drives. I have three drives, and one of them is where my Cakewalk projects folders go, with the audio, etc.
 
I seem to recall hearing that you should not defrag your audio drive, but my search of this forum didn't find anything.
 
Is it a bad idea to defrag your audio drive?
 
Thanks,
4/4/2014
Kalle Rantaaho
It sounds like risky, but OTOH, audio drive is the one that gets most fragmented, especially if you regularily remove the unnecessary files. I have defragged mine a few times after cleaning it first. No problems that I noticed.
4/4/2014
kristoffer
The only thing I remember hearing, is to not defrag SSD drives. 
 
 
4/4/2014
jcschild
you are supposed to be directing these type questions at us.. not the forums where you may or may not get correct advice..
 
yes you can/should as long as its not SSD.. but no where are frequently as say 10 yrs ago..
and ideally keep your drive no more than 65% full once every 3 months should be plenty
4/4/2014
razor
jcschild
you are supposed to be directing these type questions at us.. not the forums where you may or may not get correct advice..
 
yes you can/should as long as its not SSD.. but no where are frequently as say 10 yrs ago..
and ideally keep your drive no more than 65% full once every 3 months should be plenty


You lost me on where to direct my posts...

Anyway, my day job is working for a hard drive company and you don't even have to defrag an SSD because they don't fragment-which is nice

What I wanted to confirm is that X2 won't potentially get messed up accessing audio files from a defrag.

Sounds like it's a non issue.

Thank you and thanks to everyone.
4/4/2014
spacealf
I just got done defragging my regular harddrive partition with Cakewalk Projects whatever on it. I always do. Never had a problem.
 
4/4/2014
slartabartfast
Unless you have stopped it, your Win7 installation is probably already defragmenting your drives on a schedule without your knowledge. It is set to do so by default, and to do a bunch of other things as well. Type task scheduler into your search box to see what might be running without your knowledge. There is no reason not to defragment your hard drives, except that if a crash occurs during the operation, some data could be lost. If you want to control that, remove the scheduled task, do a backup of critical data on the drive, then do a manual defragment before you put new valuable data in place.
4/4/2014
razor
slartabartfast
Unless you have stopped it, your Win7 installation is probably already defragmenting your drives on a schedule without your knowledge. It is set to do so by default, and to do a bunch of other things as well. Type task scheduler into your search box to see what might be running without your knowledge. There is no reason not to defragment your hard drives, except that if a crash occurs during the operation, some data could be lost. If you want to control that, remove the scheduled task, do a backup of critical data on the drive, then do a manual defragment before you put new valuable data in place.


Very good points. My defrag was scheduled for 1 AM when the computer is off, so no defragging has happened yet. I also looked at the task scheduler and Google updates had 2 entries and HP (my printer) has some customer participation thing scheduled. All three are disabled now.
 
Thanks!
4/4/2014
razor
jcschild
you are supposed to be directing these type questions at us.. not the forums where you may or may not get correct advice..
 
yes you can/should as long as its not SSD.. but no where are frequently as say 10 yrs ago..
and ideally keep your drive no more than 65% full once every 3 months should be plenty


OH, LOL. I couldn't tell on my phone that it was the Scott that I bought my DAW from. Now I know what you mean.
 
Ah, I love the CW forums. Been coming here since there was an Internet.  I always come here!
4/5/2014
jcschild

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