Re: D2005 Professional - Initial Observations...

From: John Herbster (herb-sci1_AT_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:11:40 -0600

"marc hoffman" wrote

> ... The performance difference i see between a fragged
> disk and a defragged one ... is day and night, especially
> (but not only) if your harddisks are more then 50% filled ...

I don't do routine defragging. With my style of using PCs,
when I have had a problem with slow performance, it is
usually with Windows' File Explorer taking 8 seconds to
do the first file delete of the day or taking longer to pop up
a right-click menu item. These are on Win2K desktop and
WinXP laptops with disks about 60% full. When I have
tried defragging, the improvement is not very noticeable --
going from 256 to 640 MB RAM on the laptop made a
bigger difference. --JohnH

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