Do HD Defraggers Increase Speed?

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From: Snooky Fudge
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:52

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After dutifully defragmenting disks once a month for a number of 
years on Hard Drives with interleaves of 1:3 and 1:1, and never
noticing any improvement in access speed, no matter how fragmented
the drive's files were, I'm left wondering:

Do file defragmentation utilities actually increase the rate of
file access by the OS and application programs?
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