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- From: maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com (Kerry Hales)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: defrag program
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 19:51:11 GMT
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- Manfred Matzinger (matzing@ping.at) wrote:
-
- : Hi!
-
- : On 29-Jan-96 23:16:29, Kerry Hales <maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com> wrote:
- : KH> With the current speed of hard drives, you will see little improvement using any
- : KH> optimiser. I think those things are obsolete. If you want to optimise, MOVE the
- : KH> files over to another partition then move them back onto the partition. It's
- : KH> about the same thing.
-
- : Sorry, but from where comes your opinion?
-
- : 1) With my IBM DPES 1080 I can *feel* the speed improvement after using ReOrg!
-
- : 2) Moving to another partition and back is definately *not* the same as using
- : ReOrg - the blocks have a different structure!
-
- : Have you ever used ReOrg!?!?
-
- : Herzliche Grⁿ▀e
- : Best regards
- : Manfred Matzinger
-
- Using a disk speed program I saw very little difference in the actual
- speeds the drive was going. I noticed a big improvement in disk speed
- when i used 3.1 Dos. I think (and this is my opinion) that an accelerated
- Amiga does not need defragmentation and I doubt that you increase head
- life on the drive that much. You would have to prove to me that risking
- trashing the drive for a 5% increase is worth the trouble.
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