On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:17:35 -0600, you wrote:
>Thanks to all who responded to my initial request for help. I'm in the
>process of sorting through all the info and figuring out what to do on my
>system. One thing, however, I have decided is to use DirMS and Buzzsaw.
>Other than really obscure interfaces and dense info files they seem to do
>everything that I would want from the XP flavor of Diskeeper or the after
>market programs. As I understand it, DirMS defrags, and condenses if you
>want, and then Buzzsaw monitors activity and defrags on the fly. Anyone think
>I've missed something critical here?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Harry
Harry
Apart from our off list chats I have read that in lab tests that defragging a
disk does very little
to improve the speed of an Hdd. Defragging the swap file also does very little
in speed
improvements.
According to PC Pro and a couple of other tech mags - "it's nice to have things
in a neat pile but
if there is no logical reason then there is no real point" or words to that
effect.
After all we cannot open the Hdd and see the neat rows of data all lined up and
if it doesn't
improve anything then why do it.
It might have done something in the long and distant past when computers ran at
tortoise top speed
and Hdds were worth a fortune for 4Mb and a Kings ransome for 25Mb.
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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