The number one culprit behind file fragmentation is Internet Explorer's Temporary Internet files. Especially if you don't delete them each time you close the browser.
My favourite configuration of drives is to have 3 partitions (or even better: 3 physical drives), one for system files and the WindowsXP swap file, one for Temporary Internet Files, and one for data and Photoshop Scratch File. This keeps most of the fragmentation on one drive, and thus don't mess with the read/write speed of anything else. I have tried to put the Photoshop Scratch File on either the system partition or the data partition, but can't see any difference in performance. Jostein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:11 AM Subject: Re: OT - A computer Question... > the more free space on a drive, the less likely a drive will have file > fragmentation. with NTFS, the cluster size stays at 4K all the way out past > 200GB. if Tanya continues to shoot RAW at the rate that she describes, she > will shoot about 4-6 GB of images each shoot. > > Herb.... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mapson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:39 PM > Subject: Re: OT - A computer Question... > > > > I am not an IT expert, but my understanding is that the drives should not > > be kept at such big sizes. Especially the OS and ones that have progs on > > them. They get fragmented easily - imagine defragmenting such a monster! > > Personally I would not make the C drive more than 8Gb in FAT and more than > > 20Gb in NTFS. That is my personal preferrence. > >
