Re: Disk Defrag in MCE environment

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"Tiny Tim" <_tim_dodd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > Here's the analysis
report from my dedicated Recorded TV drive. Every single
> recording is fragged. Defragger recommends defragging the drive. Yet there
> is absolutely no problem with 18 fragments in a one hour show. A head skip
> every three minutes is going to do no harm whatsoever. On the other hand,
> shunting 13GB of data from one place on the disk to another is certainly
> going to add to wear and tear with no useful performance gain. I'll leave
> my files just as they are, thanks :-)

Feel free to do whatever you like. I am not here to contradict you, I just
wanted to correct your error.

Certainly you are correct that defragging adds additional wear to the disk
and heads, but I disagree with your generalization that there is no useful
performance gain. The "correct" answer seems to me to be "it depends" as it
is dependant upon disk size, amount of free space, number of files, number
of fragments, distance between fragments etc.

If you don't defrag, I would expect that the recordings that you make as
your disk fills up will become increasingly more fragmented than those you
made when the disk was clean. Would it be enough to make a performance
difference? Probably not unless the fragmentation is extreme.

-Pete


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