I'd say that depends on how often you (would) run defrag Which should depend on how often the files on your partitions become so fragmented that the system becomes not only noticeably, but also annoyingly slower. And the benefits you would expect to get from a defragment process as opposed to any other process
My system 3 x 250Gb at the moment My OS is on a separate drive from most software, so I rarely defrag the OS drive no more that twice in a year after I take, and verify backups of that partition ( I do, more frequently, move the few 'user' files from, and then back to the OS drive) I have a separate partition for each users files including email and temp internet stuff These are subject to so much 'churn, that it isn't worth defragging. ( Occasionally move user stuff to a backup, delete all appropriate stuff, and move the user 'data' files back, followed by the email stuff ) There is another partition for applications software The applications rarely get changed so they rarely get fragmented ( not worth defrag effort) There are other partitions for bulk file sets. The bulk sets are occasionally moved to alternate partitions Infrequent access to files means that fragmentation has little effect So, with appropriately organised and structured partitions other than to manipulate the MFT do you need to have Diskeeper, And then, what manipulation facilities does it provide? JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "McPeak, Harry D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:17 PM Subject: SOFT: Diskeeper vs. XP defrag This is a follow up to my question about using Diskeeper to manipulate the MFT. Does anyone have enough experience with Diskeeper to know if it is worth buying instead of using the stripped down version that comes as defrag w/ XP? TIA, Harry -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
