Maybe the benefits exist but I have never had to defrag a drive on NT.
Perhaps someone has benchmarked drives before an after defragmentation.
It'd be nice to see results.
Regards
josu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan von Winlamerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:45 PM
Subject: RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
>
> --- "Andrew S. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > File fragmentation has a negative impact on performance, because
> > it
> > makes reading files much much harder.
> >
> > Regular defragmentation allows the drive and the OS to make
> > better use
> > of caching for file reads, among other things.
>
> OK, thank you. This would be true for very old types of
> HDDs/controllers/linear_geometry and FS. Then NTFS wouldn't be a
> journalling FS in the modern sense, prolly a top level layer. In
> any event all I need to know: does it need defragmentation really
> or just to boost economy? I really doubt.
>
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