On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
You all sharp users may know the answer to this question. As we all know, when data is recorded on the hd it fills segments, some here some there, and only if it is big then it will finally be in an area filling segments in order. Question: when you move this data to another hd, do you get the program data all in order or is it still hopping from one segment to another?
If you copy files to a newly formatted HD the files are written sequentially without fragments. This is why, for example, it's best to do things like editing video on a freshly formatted scratch partition.
If you copy files to a HD that already has data on it, you'll deal with whatever fragmentation exists on that disk
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