Not to re-hash that, but I forget if we discussed the effects of
multi-threaded, multi-file access or just single threaded/single-file?
I am beginning to feel as long as my swap, temp, and core windows files
are not fragged that the state of the rest of the FS can be fragged to
hell with no effect.
With the amount of processes I run on my 1GB P4-M 2ghz and get bogged
down it seems it's never the HDD flashing as the culprit. Though I do
see an fragmentation effect slowing me down when archiving multi-GB's of
space from my download drive and accessing something else big on the drive.
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 10:10 AM 26/04/2006, Hayes Elkins wrote:
No kidding. Not that I think defrags are snake oil, but come on, why
waste my time reading this report?
From the report:
"A system running Outlook showed an increase in performance of 67.9 to
176.1 percent after defragmentation.
A system running Excel showed an increase in performance of 83.7 percent
after defragmentation."
Maybe so, but as people will remember from my tests on real world
machines - reading all files on the hard drive - the speed improvements
I saw were more in the 5-7% range.
T
