but when the drives get full, the whole systems bogs down and then to defrag
can take forever and no one of the defrag tools do a good job when you have
reached this point.
So my humble opinion is to do it and do it frequently using Diskkeeper
FragGaurd on all the time while there is lots of space to operate in.
Erich
-----Original Message-----
From: Josu Lekaroz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
Maybe the benefits exist but I have never had to defrag a drive on NT.
Perhaps someone has benchmarked drives before an after defragmentation.
It'd be nice to see results.
Regards
josu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan von Winlamerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
>
> --- "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.
>
> 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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