MyDefrag huh? Guess I'll be downloading that myself..
On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:55 -0500, Thane Sherrington
<th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:
At 02:46 PM 16/05/2010, maccrawj wrote:
No because just as back then I know of no benchmark that will
exhaustively read all files to determine access times. It's not going
to affect creating a new file & reading it back unless the drive is so
fragmented that 1000's of non-contiguous clusters get created by the
test. Reading all the files before & after is the only real test AFAIK
and I've not done that.
For the heck of it, I did some testing with boot times on computers
before and after MyDefrag (run 6 month script.)
Older machine 1 (XP):
Boot time (from pressing power button until My Computer opens)
Before MyDefrag: 49 seconds
After MyDefrag: 32 seconds - 34% improvement
Older machine 2 (Vista):
Before MyDefrag: 1:49
After MyDefrag: 1:17 - 29% improvement
Brand new machine (XP):
Before MyDefrag: 1:10
After MyDefrag: 1:09
So I'm changing my original stance on defragging. With MyDefrag (I'm
not supporting any other defragger, since I have never seen improvements
with those) on an older machine, it's well worth running MyDefrag at
least once every few months to improve overall speed. On a brand new
machine, it's probably not worth the effort. I can't say how often one
would need to do a defrag, but I have a hard time imagining more than
once every 3 months, and probably no more than once every 6 months.
T
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