re: Defraging with Me tool
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3588 messages posted)
|I've used the ME defrag tool for quite a while now.
|It has an option of re arranging files or not during the defrag process.
|A few years back, "Carol" made a negative remark
|about using the re arranging feature without commenting why.
| Jack Hall
Well, the more stuff you have it do, the longer it takes.
(As I defrag when I'm asleep, it's a wash for me.)
The additional wear & tear on the moving parts would seem to be the big downside
--and that needs to be weighed against any real gains.
(Does the mechanism get more wear from the maintenance process
than it saves in head movement later from "poorly-located" files?)
The ordering of stuff on the disk after it is done
has always seemed largely arbitrary to me anyway.
The feature *I* want to see in a defragger
is the ability to unfragment "unmovable" file segments.
ISTM, the fragmentation of other stuff within non-contiguous red sections[1]
makes for the largest performance hit on a disk which is ostensibly defrag'd.
[1] From time to time "dhm" will remind us here
to defrag[2] IMMEDIATELY BEFORE installing anything.
to avoid that kind of annomally.
[2] Read: "do comprehensive disk maintenance".
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- Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Friday, December 28, 2007 at 12:46 pm)
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