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- Subject: Re: Hard disk Defragmenters, any suggestions?
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- From: rfritz@eis.calstate.edu (Ryan Fritz)
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:27:46 GMT
- References: <Uegai5m00awJM3nnQX@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
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- sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier) writes:
- > I personnally tried such a defragmenter on my HD after
- > 1 year of use. I didn't notice any speed difference !
- >
- > I think that most of the files you have don't move that much
- > (applications, libraries, ...). So that defragmenting a HD
- > is only useful once in a while (if it ever is !)
- >
- > Stefan Monnier
-
- I ran a BBS and have 135 megs worth of hard disk space. I remember once
- running a defragmenter on a drive that had about a thousand files which
- had been moved quite a few times. It sped it up quite a bit, but the
- everage user probably does not have that much to speed up. I also
- remember on one occasion crashing my boot C: drive with some lame PD
- defrag program. Just be careful on what you do because it screws with the
- FAT sectors...
-
- Ryan Fritz
- rfritz@eis.calstate.edu
-
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