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- Subject: Re: Hard disk Defragmenters, any suggestions?
- Message-ID: <yvyn2vq@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:48:28 GMT
- References: <168608AD1.C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <168608AD1.C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu> 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?
- > If so, where could I find a RELIABLE defragger? I saw a.a has one,
- >but it didn't mention hard disks in the description......
- >
- >Thanks. J.H. c556212@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
-
- Defragmenters are mostly marketing hype that your friend seems to have
- swallowed whole. Do defraggers make reads faster? They can. It really depends
- upon your usage of your HD. If you create and delete lots and lots of files
- often, then a defragger might help. All it really does is make sure reads
- are done in a contiguous block, instead of taking the time to step here and
- step there and thrash all over your drive. If you've the room on your drive,
- you can achieve the same thing for NOTHING by copying all your files to a
- partition, deleting all the files from the destination, then copying from the
- partition back to the destination.
-
- CF
-