Re: is there a better XP Defrag..?
- From: "Kelly" <kelly@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:29:51 -0500
Am not going to argue with you. However, will stand by my previous
statement.
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Kelly (MS-MVP)
Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <eAiDCXlaFHA.2076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kelly@xxxxxxxx
> says...
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Nothing more is needed. Fact is, you don't need to run it at all in XP.
>
> Kelly, you are wrong. While many people that don't run it never know
> they needed to run it, it is something that can increase drive related
> performance on a cluttered drive system. Defragmentation of files means
> that the RW heads don't have to seek to another sector to finish loading
> the file, which means there is less dead-time during a file read.
>
> If you don't believe it, consider what FILE fragmentation really is, and
> now a drive reads files.
>
> While many people no have large drives that are only 30% used, there are
> a great many people that have small drives that are more than 80% used,
> and the same with people that have large drives with limited free space.
>
> In either case, the number of fragments a file is broken into directly
> impacts the file read performance.
>
> The stripped down XP defrag program will defragment files, but it's not
> that good at "packing" the drive. Many programs like O&O or Diskeeper
> are specifically designed to move files to the beginning of the drive,
> to defragment files, to defragment white-space, and have scheduling
> ability in addition to the ability to not fragment files when possible.
>
> I personally have seen many machines that were crawling (performance)
> restored to a much higher performance state by using a quality defrag
> tool (the XP one was never tried since DK or O&O was purchased).
>
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