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Answer» Is it better to defrag on a hard drive ACROSS multiple platters or one?How would you select which platters ? ? How would you select which platters ? ? Windows XP's defrag program seems to defrag files and put them across multiple platters. I have a program that puts it on just one platter. I'm just WONDERING. I would think having on multiple platters would be better because the hard drive can read across multiple platters at the same time where as if all data was on one platter it's access time would take longer. I don't know of a defrag program that seperates out platters...this would involve quite a bit of math computations all depending on the size of the drive/how many platters etc. What's the name of this defragger ? ?Quote from: patio on December 04, 2008, 02:47:55 PM I don't know of a defrag program that seperates out platters...this would involve quite a bit of math computations all depending on the size of the drive/how many platters etc. Ultra Defrag http://majorgeeks.com/Ultra_Defragmenter_d5727.html I don't know if it's putting it on one platter but it sure compresses the data down and if you run windows defrag after running ultra defrag (the analysis only) you will see that the data has been moved all the way to the left. The graphical REPRESENTATION you see is just that...a picture of data being unfragmented. I don't believe there is a program that will do this at "the platter level" but someone ELSE may know of one. Every defrag program will show this data process in a different matter. For example DisKeeper tightens everything up to the right of the graph...this does not mean all that data is being located to a specific platter.Quote from: patio on December 05, 2008, 07:33:50 AM The graphical representation you see is just that...a picture of data being unfragmented. ya but hey...great marketing if it moves a lot of product...lol Quote from: fgdn17 on December 05, 2008, 11:06:39 AM Quote from: patio on December 05, 2008, 07:33:50 AMUmmmm.......What?The graphical representation you see is just that...a picture of data being unfragmented.ya but hey...great marketing if it moves a lot of product...lol having data defragmented across platters wouldn't increase speed since all the read/write heads move at once; they are not independent and cannot be moved separately. |
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