Re: Disk defragger besides Norton?

From: at (Peter)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:12:10 +0100

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:25:30 -0400, Bob Willard
<BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote:

>mrbog wrote:
>
>> Basides Norton, what's the next best disk diagnosis/defrag app?
>
>Since defragging has little value on most PCs, my definition of best
>is cheapest -- meaning the one included with XP.

On what basis do you say that "defragging has little value on most
PCs"? My experience it that it depends on how much free space you have
on the disk partition, but that disk fragmentation can make a
significant difference to Windows performance. On my own system, where
none of the partitions approach half full, the boot partition gets
very fragmented, but I would have to admit that this doesn't seem to
slow things down perceptibly. On my wife's system, which has the same
motherboard, an only slightly slower processor, and a comparable hard
disk, but where, for "historical" reasons, the boot partition only has
15-20% free space, there is an easily perceptible slowdown
(particularly of program loading) when this partition needs
defragmenting, and a comparable speedup when this has been done. Both
systems have their swap files on separate dedicated partitions, so
this isn't a swap file fragmentation problem.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

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