>> And that sums up the capabilities of Norton. Pretty colors. Makes you feel >> like you accomplished something when you didn't. Meh. > > Not always. My best example was an old Wallstreet Powerbook that took ages > to start up and was very unresponsive. Norton speed disk took around an hour > to shunt files around and afterwards it back to normal. > > Fragmentation has to be very bad to notice a difference, and this example > was bad. Running speed disk when there's just a few percent fragmentation > makes no difference.
This proves my point. There is nothing in the startup process that pertains to the disk condition or fragmentation in any way. This is my point. You are convinced that this has something to do with fragmentation. I can detail the boot sequence in every mac.. It's in your head. >> I would have to disagree. When you boot, I believe you read things off the hard drive, like the extensions, for example. Worst case scenerio: All the extensions and other files it needs to read during bootup, are spread all over the drive, and the files are split among sectors, one or more of the sectors are magnetically weak, which means the computer has to do multiple attempts before successfully reading said file. After defragmentation and optimization, each file is closest to the beginning of the disc, all located one right after the other physically, and each file is solid magnetically. Now, I would think that even going from worst to best, it would not be significantly faster. Noticibly, probably, but I wouldn't think it would even approach twice the time. In 20 years (since the Atari 400) time, I would have to say that I have seen my computers run quicker after defragging/optimizing time after time. However, I don't usually do this till after they're past moderately fragged. YMMV STeve -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
