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Article #8982Re: Disk deframgmentation software - recommendations wanted
From: Andrew J. White
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 04:58
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 04:58
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In article <XkuuZ4w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes: >> I have used Norton's program and it works well but is VERY slow >> (it tends to move every block on the disk every time you run it). I use OPTUNE from Gazelle, and it is MUCH faster... sometimes by as much as 500%... than Norton's SPEEDISK. >I dunno which version of Norton you're using, but SPEEDISK.EXE in >Norton 5.0 only moves every block on the disk if you choose "Full >Defragmentation". If you choose "Fragmented Files Only", it will only >move around files that are fragmented, and is generally much faster. >The disadvantage is that this tends to leave lots of little holes of >free space on you disk, which means it gets re-fragmented much >faster. ... You can also turn VERIFICATION off which speeds things up a lot. -- __________________________________________________________________________ Andrew J. White | U. of Pennsylvania | awhite@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Comp. Science 1993 | School of Engineering | whiteaj@clutx.clarkson.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!awhite From: awhite@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andrew J. White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Disk deframgmentation software - recommendations wanted Message-ID: <40507@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 04:58:03 GMT References: <1050@pallas.athenanet.com> <XkuuZ4w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: awhite@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andrew J. White) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu