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| Thread ID: 88329 | 2008-03-23 21:43:00 | Best Defragging software | Growler (12596) | Press F1 |
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| 652182 | 2008-03-24 23:30:00 | Automatic defragmenters are great; they make defragging much more efficient and convenient than the manual defraggers. Defragging is important to keep the files on the drive performing optimally*, so it can't be dismissed, but no point in wasting time on it either. Automatic defrag provides the best of both worlds IMO. * Microsoft as well as the major PC manufacturers recommend defrag for optimal performance. It's even on the Vista website as well as Technet. |
habu (12570) | ||
| 652183 | 2008-03-25 01:51:00 | The best defragmentation software is no defragmentation software. How long will this stupid myth persist? (Perhaps about as usefull as the RAM drag programs) wiki.castlecops.com "Common Myths About Defragging: Myth: Defragging will significantly improve performance. Fact: Generally speaking, this is not true. You may see some file read and write performance increase after fragmenting a very heavily fragmented drive that is low on free disk space. But, with today’s big, fast drives with 8Mb or more of buffers, it is more likely you will not. " www.thirdring.net forums.cnet.com |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 652184 | 2008-03-25 02:27:00 | PC defraging is an absolute necessity for some applications. One example is with MS Flight Sims. There's a lot of rubbish been written by people who have no knowledge of what they are talking about. O&O defrag is my number one tune up tool. It is the number one tool for all serious FS players. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 652185 | 2008-03-25 03:20:00 | There's a lot of rubbish been written by people who have no knowledge of what they are talking about. Like these people?? quote from PC World. "When the PC World Test Center set out to determine the effectiveness of the defrag utilities in our set of suites, plus that of Diskeeper 8 from Executive Software, our analysts found no evidence that defragmentation enhanced performance. On a desktop system from the PC World office with a heavily used, never-defragmented hard drive, the lab conducted speed tests using a range of applications before and after defragmenting the drive with each utility. In the end, the Test Center saw no significant performance improvement after defragmenting with any program. This result flies in the face of the received wisdom that fragmentation hinders performance, though much older PCs (with slower and smaller hard drives) and heavily used servers may benefit more from defragging. We used to say that defragging would speed up a system, but with today's larger, faster hard drives, that no longer seems true. The PC World Test Center's tests reveal that defraggers don't actually improve performance. And Steve Gibson, president of PC consulting firm Gibson Research Corporation, confirmed our findings" |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 652186 | 2008-03-25 03:42:00 | Not really, file copying speeds are important to some people, especially people who need to copy 20 Gigs of data at once. Can you please show me some diagrams to show that defragging doesn't speed up your pc? | SPARTAN 860 (2618) | ||
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