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SSDs are very much upon us, but here are a couple of mechanical drive questions. When you right click on a drive in Windows and go to Properties and Tools to do a disk check, modern Windows very quickly (usually) tells you that there's nothing wrong with your disk, but
• is it good practice to do a disk check every few years?
Rather than going the long way to DOS and force doing a long check,
• is there a program that could perform a quick check with a single click, or is the best way to install every manufacturer's software and use it to do a long and extended test on your old multi TB drives which have not been checked in a few years?
I mean, it's been a while for some of them and I kind of expect them to go out, so maybe by doing these checks you could kind of get a semblance of warning before they really go out?
Speaking of mechanical drives, we do not need to defragment SSDs of course but for mechanical drives,
The cofounder of Golden Bow Systems - Author of Vopt:
In accordance with Barry's wish, Vopt is his bequest to Windows PC users
www.goldenbow.com
This was one of the best defragmenting programs we looked at years ago... and it is now free. Not a stellar user interface but a great program!
On a related question, when I do a search, people say other solutions are better than native Windows defragmenter, why is Windows 10 defragmenter not better than old freeware, if that is so? After all these years, how hard is it for Microsoft to make their native defragmenter be as good as all the freeware out there...
• is it good practice to do a disk check every few years?
Rather than going the long way to DOS and force doing a long check,
• is there a program that could perform a quick check with a single click, or is the best way to install every manufacturer's software and use it to do a long and extended test on your old multi TB drives which have not been checked in a few years?
I mean, it's been a while for some of them and I kind of expect them to go out, so maybe by doing these checks you could kind of get a semblance of warning before they really go out?
Speaking of mechanical drives, we do not need to defragment SSDs of course but for mechanical drives,
The cofounder of Golden Bow Systems - Author of Vopt:
In accordance with Barry's wish, Vopt is his bequest to Windows PC users
www.goldenbow.com
This was one of the best defragmenting programs we looked at years ago... and it is now free. Not a stellar user interface but a great program!
On a related question, when I do a search, people say other solutions are better than native Windows defragmenter, why is Windows 10 defragmenter not better than old freeware, if that is so? After all these years, how hard is it for Microsoft to make their native defragmenter be as good as all the freeware out there...
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