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- From: hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra)
- Subject: Re: Hard disk Defragmenters, any suggestions?
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- Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:28:07 GMT
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- C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Jeoff Hines) writes:
-
- > I have a friend with an IBM that swears by his H.D. defragmenter. I
- >think he uses every day (sometimes twice). Says that it speeds up his
- >read times. Could this be true? Is it a good idea to defragment my Hard
- >Drive once in a while?
-
- I already wrote a follow-up to this article, but have forgotten one thing:
- please do not defragment your HD twice a day - IMO that's ridiculous. It *is*
- good -and even necessary (again IMO)- to defragment once in a while, but
- *twice* a day...? I do it once every few months or so - whenever I notice a
- considerable speed-decrease.
- It's also a good idea to have a separate partition for data that changes a lot
- (e.g. projects you're working on, stuff you've downloaded, etc.) and separate
- partitions for 'stable' data (e.g. programs). The 'changeable' partition will
- get fragmented the most whereas the 'stable' partitions won't get fragmented at
- all (or hardly...) This way you need only defragment one partition - spares a
- lot of effort, time and HD-access (esp. with a 210M hd it's very nice to not
- have to defragment the entire disk).
-
- that's it,
- Hendrik Jan
-
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- Hendrik Jan Veenstra hjv@phil.ruu.nl
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