[ColinM]

Originally Posted by rerem

Defrag is most important on the partition/drive that has the OS,software. There's thousands of little bits,10kb files and such,there's lots of change and stuff accumulates. A partition of music files,flacs,Waves,even mp3 is going to be files of several mb,many grouped as folders-and periodically chunks of 250-1000 megs are getting deleted. The arrangement of all that won't have an effect on your OS/software on another disc.

Agreed. I have 4 hard drives in my case that are the same age; 5 months now. The OS is a 36 gb Raptor and needs defragging now. The other 3 are SATA or IDE 160gb models and hold Loveline, Stern and Boots. They are 50% full or more and haven't needed defragging all this time.