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re: Defrags
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (23819 messages posted)


People defrag their disks, thinking it's critical to system performance, when in 
reality it seldom provides a noticeable difference. Going through the mathematics 
of the time it takes to retrieve a fragmented file versus a non-fragmented file reveals 
that the difference is very small. A data file with a hundred fragments takes (on 
average) about 0.3 seconds longer to load.






On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:31 am, Carol wrote:
>Thanks to all who replied , but some of you say you do use a defragger program and
>others don't, may I ask why.
>this is to Martin: you mentioned in your note "Unless you are experiencing problems,"
>what problems are you talking about?
>
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Written in response to:
re: Defrags (Carol: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:31 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Defrags (MartinM: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 2:34 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Defrags (Carol: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 4:13 am)
*re: Defrags (William: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 4:37 am)
-re: Defrags (Keith Stanier: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 5:18 am)
*re: Defrags (Peter: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 5:57 am)
*re: Defrags - don't do it ! (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 9:21 am)
-re: Defrags (Carol: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:31 am)
*re: Defrags (William: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:44 am)
*re: Defrags (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 5:35 am)
*re: Defrags (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 6:04 am)
-re: Defrags (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 11:30 pm)
*re: Defrags (MartinM: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 2:34 am)
*re: Defrags (Carol: Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 2:19 am)
*re: Defrags (Larry: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 8:00 am)
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