[H] Benefits of Defragging
From TechRepublic: Download this IDC report to read the findings of tests conducted by NSTL, a leading independent hardware and software testing organization, on the impact that disk defragmentation has on Windows XP performance. http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/clicks?c=2138756-14662934brand=techrepublicds=5 Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada
Re: [H] Benefits of Defragging
At 09:53 AM 26/04/2006, Robert Turnbull wrote: From TechRepublic: Download this IDC report to read the findings of tests conducted by NSTL, a leading independent hardware and software testing organization, on the impact that disk defragmentation has on Windows XP performance. The report is sponsored by DiskKeeper. I'd be very suspicious of their results. T
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No kidding. Not that I think defrags are snake oil, but come on, why waste my time reading this report? From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Benefits of Defragging Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:08:23 -0300 At 09:53 AM 26/04/2006, Robert Turnbull wrote: From TechRepublic: Download this IDC report to read the findings of tests conducted by NSTL, a leading independent hardware and software testing organization, on the impact that disk defragmentation has on Windows XP performance. The report is sponsored by DiskKeeper. I'd be very suspicious of their results. T
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At 10:10 AM 26/04/2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: No kidding. Not that I think defrags are snake oil, but come on, why waste my time reading this report? From the report: A system running Outlook showed an increase in performance of 67.9 to 176.1 percent after defragmentation. A system running Excel showed an increase in performance of 83.7 percent after defragmentation. Maybe so, but as people will remember from my tests on real world machines - reading all files on the hard drive - the speed improvements I saw were more in the 5-7% range. T
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At 11:01 AM 4/26/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Maybe so, but as people will remember from my tests on real world machines - reading all files on the hard drive - the speed improvements I saw were more in the 5-7% range. I usually tell my clients 10% that if they just remember to defrag once in a while that should be good enough that it doesn't have to be scheduled. If they claim that their memory is bad then I tell them one can't do any harm by defragging whenever they can't remember when they did it last so don't lose any sleep over it. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
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Not to re-hash that, but I forget if we discussed the effects of multi-threaded, multi-file access or just single threaded/single-file? I am beginning to feel as long as my swap, temp, and core windows files are not fragged that the state of the rest of the FS can be fragged to hell with no effect. With the amount of processes I run on my 1GB P4-M 2ghz and get bogged down it seems it's never the HDD flashing as the culprit. Though I do see an fragmentation effect slowing me down when archiving multi-GB's of space from my download drive and accessing something else big on the drive. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 10:10 AM 26/04/2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: No kidding. Not that I think defrags are snake oil, but come on, why waste my time reading this report? From the report: A system running Outlook showed an increase in performance of 67.9 to 176.1 percent after defragmentation. A system running Excel showed an increase in performance of 83.7 percent after defragmentation. Maybe so, but as people will remember from my tests on real world machines - reading all files on the hard drive - the speed improvements I saw were more in the 5-7% range. T
