I haven't as yet defragged my servers, which probably need it more than my desktops. But I can definitely tell when I log into a desktop that needs defragging. I can hear the drives churning. Desktops are all nt4 w/ ntfs.
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
I have exprienced slow data access from badly fragmented NTFS drives. I don't
have any recent data nor do I have "hard data" from a test environment. I do
know that after defragging my users' hard drives their computer response times
more than doubled. IE it took less than half the previous time to open the same
files.
ralph
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Subject: RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
Author: NT System Admin Issues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08/27/2001 2:22 PM
but when the drives get full, the whole systems bogs down and then to defrag
can take forever and no one of the defrag tools do a good job when you have
reached this point.
So my humble opinion is to do it and do it frequently using Diskkeeper
FragGaurd on all the time while there is lots of space to operate in.
Erich
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From: Josu Lekaroz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?
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
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