Yes, some of us do still exist! And, why I raised this thread.
Now, I am rethinking my old rote PM duties.
Duncan
On 08/08/2013 08:00, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Are people still defragging?
Sent from my mobile device.
On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:43 AM, Thane Sherrington <[email protected]>
wrote:
At 06:35 AM 08/08/2013, Joshua MacCraw wrote:
No need to counter with stats, you partially debunked yourself! A
linear copy test has no bearing on fragmentation's effects on real
world random access. It wasn't 6 or 7 years ago, it was less than 4
Ok, so you say my test is invalid. Maybe so, but if it is, why didn't you
bother to mention this back when initial discussion took place?
And you still can't offer a repeatable benchmark. Usenet? How many people use
that? Accpac for DOS also benefits from defragging, but not many people run
that either.
Steam? Ok, there are some gamers out there who haven't moved to SSD who might
find an improvement, but once again, not a really common application for must
PC users.
Hibernation? How often are you doing that? Is the savings in time from waking
up and going to sleep twice a day worth the hours of defrag time?
And frankly, if you're using a netbook, you don't care about performance anyway.
Show me a significant, repeatable, measurable improvement in office
applications/web surfing usage, and I'll be happy to run the tests to see what
sort of improvements are possible. Heck, I'd even be interested in improvement
in boot times (not hibernation).
Here's an interesting thing: It's virtually impossible to get two defraggers
to agree on what is fragmented and what isn't. Even MyDefrag, if you run it
repeatedly, will move files each time to you it, suggesting that there is no
completely defragged drive.
T
