Posted by Paul Hyett on 03/09/06 06:12

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Wed, 8 Mar 2006, DWalker wrote :
>
>Personally I think defragging computer hard disks is overrated. If your
>computer disk is severely fragmented, reading a large file sequentially
>will be slightly slower -- but not much slower if your disk drive has
>low seek times. I do defrag once in a great while, using Raxco Perfect
>Disk to put all the boot-time files together which helps my boot time
>*slightly*.
>
The thing that puts me off defragging is that it resets every couple of
minutes 'due to disc write'. There should be an option to ignore that.
--
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

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