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- From: matzing@ping.at (Manfred Matzinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: defrag program
- Date: 06 Feb 96 19:45:40 +0100
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- Hi!
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- On 05-Feb-96 20:51:11, Kerry Hales <maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com> wrote:
- KH> Using a disk speed program I saw very little difference in the actual
- KH> speeds the drive was going. I noticed a big improvement in disk speed
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- Which filesystem and which defragmentation program did you use and which tool
- did you use for measuring disk speek?
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- How heavy was the disk defragmented before using the defracmentation program?
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- KH> when i used 3.1 Dos. I think (and this is my opinion) that an accelerated
- KH> Amiga does not need defragmentation and I doubt that you increase head
- KH> life on the drive that much. You would have to prove to me that risking
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- An turbo-board is improving diskspeed only very little, but
- defracmentation - that's it :-)
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- I agree, that the argument of longer lasting heads is of minor importance.
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- KH> trashing the drive for a 5% increase is worth the trouble.
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- I had *never* troubles with ReOrg 3.11. Nevertheless I make a backup before
- using it - just to be on the safe side...
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- Herzliche Grⁿ▀e
- Best regards
- Manfred Matzinger
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