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Article #365Re: Do HD Defraggers Increase Speed?
From: Steve Strange
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 12:09
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 12:09
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In article <scott.720888755@phylo> scott@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Snooky Fudge) writes: 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? They can, but your files have to be significantly fragmented for it to make a difference. My guess is that on a Mac, you'd need to run your disk nearly full for over a year and have a lot of data files before the performance would degrate noticably. Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!decvax.dec.com!decvax!strange From: strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange) Subject: Re: Do HD Defraggers Increase Speed? In-Reply-To: scott@phylo.life.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:52:35 GMT Message-ID: <STRANGE.92Nov4120920@squeeze.dec.com> Sender: usenet@decvax.dec.com (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: squeeze.zk3.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. References: <scott.720888755@phylo> Date: 4 Nov 92 12:09:20 Lines: 17