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 > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
