Over time, I find fragged disks measurably slow trashing and access times,
and I mean by a factor of many times

on 11/8/02 1:53 PM, Len Gerstel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
>>> 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
> 
> 


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