On 07 Mar 17  08:22:35, Kurt Weiske said the following to Nick Andre:

KW> Points taken. I posted a response based on my own experience with my own
KW> (known) system, checking the drive health and doing a backup should be the
KW> first step. I'd hate to think of doing a defrag to speed up a drive when th
KW> drive is slow because it's remapping bad sectors as it finds them!

The thing with defragmenting, from my own experience of course... is that it 
barely makes any difference. Modern computers and hard drives are not like the
performance of Windows 95 or DOS where yes, a defragment makes a difference.

On this server where it constantly tosses mail, therefore there is constant 
write-operations and likely constant fragmentation, I see no benefit 
whatsoever. I defragmented the server once; and checked the next week to see 
the file system was a mess again. There really just was no point in doing so.

Nick

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