Defragging is necessary and can easily be proven.
Anyone on this list who has defragged a heavily fragmented
disk/partition can attest to this.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan von Winlamerberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:46 PM
>To: NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
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>--- "Andrew S. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> File fragmentation has a negative impact on performance, because
>> it
>> makes reading files much much harder.
>>
>> Regular defragmentation allows the drive and the OS to make
>> better use
>> of caching for file reads, among other things.
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>OK, thank you. This would be true for very old types of
>HDDs/controllers/linear_geometry and FS. Then NTFS wouldn't be a
>journalling FS in the modern sense, prolly a top level layer. In
>any event all I need to know: does it need defragmentation really
>or just to boost economy? I really doubt.
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