>> Isn't a >> defragmentation a good idea? I've been defragging disks since my 20 megger hooked to my Plus. Defragging will NOT get you a measurable speed increase using a drive timing utility- they are designed to use the largest contigiuos(sp?) free space available to test the speed of a drive.
Where defragging will speed up things is when files that are constantly accessed are split into a bunch of fragments. When they are split, the drive must read and seek and read and seek etc. to read all of the file. Where this is most obvious after defragging is when the System, Finder and Desktop files (and any other large documents) are all together in one contigious file they can be accessed much more quickly. Normally the speed up is in things like opening folders with a lot of files, doing a sherlock or findfile search, starting up your system, opening up a large document or anything else where you need to read a lot of info off of the disk. I have never lost info doing a defrag, knock, knock, but I have never had a power outage (or a plug pull) during one. Most modern defraggers are pretty safe. Just DO A FULL BACKUP BEFORE DOING ONE to be safe. Len -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
