On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > Generally speaking, the ONLY times actually defragging is valuable > > these days is when you have lots of file additions and deletions near > > the capacity of the drive. > > My only long term usage Windows computer, a 350MHz P2 PC, has a 40GB > HD that was 90% full and almost completely fragmented (90%+ > fragmented files, and super slow). Without thinking, I started the > Defragment Utility and it took forever to complete, several hours. I > found two or three large files to delete, bumping the free space up to > 28% now. > > I reran the Defragment utility, and to my surprise the HD was still > mostly fragmented. After completing a 2nd time, I looked again, and it > was STILL mostly fragmented. I've now run the Defragment utility about > 8 times in a row, and the HD is STILL about 50% fragmented. Each cycle > is only gaining me a single digit increase in the percentage > fragmentation. > > I've never defragmented my Mac, and I've never owned a Mac as slow as > my completely fragmented PC, which is nearly unusable. Its main usage > is to boot DOS or Windows to run firmware update programs for hardware > that requires a PC to update the firmware. I think Bruce is right, > Macs don't seem to benefit much from defragmenting. I don't have > enough experience with Windows to know, but so far my experience is > typical Windows frustration with 24 hours of defragmentation still > ongoing. We'll see... I'm not holding my breath. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > On the list I mentioned the Windows list moderator there a proclaimed that listers should no longer advocate defragging for Windows!!!! God if there was ever an OS that had a problems with fragging! Sheesh! I have Vista and XP machines ( cannot afford a Mac only studio so gimmee a break) now and find the MS defraggers very inefficient, So I have found some third party utilities that work better. But still cannot get the magic graphic analyses that Disk Warrior has provided on Mac OS. I see now they are alos saying registry cleaners for Windows are harmful! So are they saying it is better to struggle with a system working under a load of fertilizer? This goes very much against the grain of experience. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
