- Joined
- May 25, 2009
- Location
- Ada Michigan
Hi
I know that fragmentation makes a lot of difference.
I've had times when the difference between having fragmented files vs un-fragmented files would determine whether some processes would complete or not when generating 3D video.
If the files were fragmented it would just hang up after a while.
Defragment them and they zip right to the end.
But my computer has felt logy lately, and I haven't done a full defragment in a long time.
I looked at my C:\ drive and it showed as 11% fragmented.
Defragler now has an app that runs a disk transfer test on a drive.
So I ran the test several times and got a transfer rate of under 3 Mbs, really slow.
Then I did a full defragmentation, and ran the test again, this time I got 30 Mbs, a big improvement.
I can feel the difference when I do things on my computer now too, it just feels better.
Now it's working on my D:\ drive, it's been at it for hours but it has the backup of my C:\ drive on it too.
Anyway if the tests are correct then it's a numerical indicator of how much keeping your computer defraged can help, and that's only 11%, I've seen people how have hard drives are at 40%.
Mike
I know that fragmentation makes a lot of difference.
I've had times when the difference between having fragmented files vs un-fragmented files would determine whether some processes would complete or not when generating 3D video.
If the files were fragmented it would just hang up after a while.
Defragment them and they zip right to the end.
But my computer has felt logy lately, and I haven't done a full defragment in a long time.
I looked at my C:\ drive and it showed as 11% fragmented.
Defragler now has an app that runs a disk transfer test on a drive.
So I ran the test several times and got a transfer rate of under 3 Mbs, really slow.
Then I did a full defragmentation, and ran the test again, this time I got 30 Mbs, a big improvement.
I can feel the difference when I do things on my computer now too, it just feels better.
Now it's working on my D:\ drive, it's been at it for hours but it has the backup of my C:\ drive on it too.
Anyway if the tests are correct then it's a numerical indicator of how much keeping your computer defraged can help, and that's only 11%, I've seen people how have hard drives are at 40%.
Mike