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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: defrag program
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 16:06:29 GMT
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- In article <4ejgvt$99a@kdcol.kdcol.com> maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com (Kerry Hales) writes:
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- > : : On 17-Jan-96 20:26:44, Christopher Baker <yogi@crl.com> wrote:
- >
- > : : CB> I have a question, what is a good optinizer program with disk frag and
- > : : CB> all the hard drive maintenace programs?
- >
- > With the current speed of hard drives, you will see little improvement using any
- > optimiser. I think those things are obsolete. If you want to optimise, MOVE the
- > files over to another partition then move them back onto the partition. It's
- > about the same thing.
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- Rubbish, if you check the state of fragmentation on your hard drive
- *after* a format and restore you'll find it's still very fragmented.
- DOS doesn't optimise small file positioning at all. Use ReOrg 3.11
- (Aminet) and you *WILL* notice a large speed up in things like the
- display of your icons on Workbench, or directory scrolling after the dir
- command etc. Also you should get longer hard drive life, due to less
- head thrashing as all the files will then be contiguous and small files
- are all together etc. This all applies to OFS FFS and the new variants,
- but probably not to AFS, but that's a whole new can of worms...
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