At 10:52 PM +0000 3/6/2011, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Have you looked at the reasons apple and MS say not to defrag?
MS doesn't want you to defrag because the need for such is embarrassing to them, and the speed-up it creates causes consumers to not buy new computers.
Apple doesn't want you to defrag because they actually put work into designing HFS+, so that it just doesn't fragment badly in the first place. Then they added the necessaries to OS X to handle the fragmentations that do occur, in the background, safely.
250 GB is not big by todays standards BUT it is 250 GB that still needs to be searched and sorted when a file is accessed. And depending on the speed of the drive in rpms and seek time for the arms it can add up. If you add or delete files often and have cramped partitions you might well benefit from a defrag.
Ok. That's just bad kool-aid. File systems don't work that way. Fragmented volumes "slow down" because the system has to reach to multiple areas of the HD to read or write a file (extra drive latencies and seeks). That has nothing to do with "searching" or "sorting" anything, ever.
Online games are not that dependent on system files. Look into where setup files are stored for game elements. On the drive or online?
Most games cache graphics and other elements locally, on your computer. If your volume is badly fragmented, then the elements will be slower to fetch back to memory when needed. *shrug* We're talking about a trivial amount of time here; not enough to make a game stall or stutter.
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