on 1/3/03 10:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Essentially it's a partition that normally contains no or very few > files, such as works- in- progress like video footage or graphic files. > The way fragmented disks slow down is because the "needle" on the HD > (kind of like a tone arm on an old hi- fi) in a regular System disk > must go back and forth to many places to assemble or access data when > you need it- that takes physical time. The UNIX- based OS X systems > which contains many more files, typically, than a Classic System ever > would is particularly prone to becoming slowed down due to > fragmentation. De- fragmentation utilities essentially copy and re- > write the files in a linear fashion- this speeds up access.
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