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Answer» i use smart defrag but i only use the it on c:/ fat32 72.12G should i use it on F:/ fat32 298.02 GDon't understand the question.as follows , hope this helps [Saving space, attachment DELETED by admin]So you're asking if you should defrag all of your partitions or drives? Yes harry, of course.thanks allan just wanted the word yes in case it was wrong to do "F" Sure. Any and all drives / partitions can be defragmented.good man , ta for now Quote from: harry 48 on December 22, 2009, 11:42:02 AM i use smart defrag but i only use the it on c:/ fat32 72.12G should i use it on F:/ fat32 298.02 G OMG...you have a partition that is 298G in Fat32? I thought it was not feasible to assign FAT32 to that large space...However, to defrag a Fat32 partition in that monstrous SIZE would be a challenge to your endurance. Why not transform the file system to NTFS, which can boost the efficiency of your defrag utility? NTFS won't make defrag any faster... in fact, NTFS is a slower filesystem overall, because of all the checks and rechecks to make sure data is almost never lost. Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 24, 2009, 11:15:06 PM NTFS won't make defrag any faster... in fact, NTFS is a slower filesystem overall, because of all the checks and rechecks to make sure data is almost never lost. I do have the personal experience to prove that. Maybe it is the different defrag software we are talking about. I use PerfectDisk as my primary defrag software. The comparison of defrag speed between FAT32 and NTFS is 1 against 100, that means defrag process on FAT32 is 100 times slower than on NTFS. I used to spend ten hours defragging my whole 250GB disk, the partitions of which are all in FAT32. But when it COMES to a 500GB disk complete in NTFS, it consume me only an hour or so.that just means perfectdisk sucks at defragmenting basic file structures. secondly, was it the same disk? chances are, the FAT32 drive was some old crappy 4800RPM, not exactly a fair comparison. The OVERHEAD when dealing with an NTFS disk is higher then it is with a FAT32 drive, this applies to ANY disk operation dealing with files; NTFS needs to keep a journal of all file activity in the transaction log; FAT32 does not. this is a fact. more operations means it takes longer. That "takes longer" is now hardly notificable even on the largest hard drives, and it's certainly worth it to use NTFS since it's a lot better then FAT32 in every respect, except pure speed, which wasn't necessarily a design goal of NTFS. Quote from: christmasguy on December 24, 2009, 11:10:06 PM OMG...you have a partition that is 298G in Fat32? I thought it was not feasible to assign FAT32 to that large space...However, to defrag a Fat32 partition in that monstrous size would be a challenge to your endurance. Why not transform the file system to NTFS, which can boost the efficiency of your defrag utility? hi i have been in hospital for a week just home , you seem to say that the "f32" file would take for ever , it took 35 mins to FINISH Hope everything's okay harry. And don't worry about this guy - he doesn't know what he's talking about.i thought that

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i use smart defrag but i only use the it on c:/ fat32 72.12G

should i use it on F:/ fat32 298.02 GDon't understand the question.as follows , hope this helps

[Saving space, attachment DELETED by admin]So you're asking if you should defrag all of your partitions or drives? Yes harry, of course.thanks allan just wanted the word yes in case it was wrong to do "F" Sure. Any and all drives / partitions can be defragmented.good man , ta for now Quote from: harry 48 on December 22, 2009, 11:42:02 AM

i use smart defrag but i only use the it on c:/ fat32 72.12G

should i use it on F:/ fat32 298.02 G

OMG...you have a partition that is 298G in Fat32? I thought it was not feasible to assign FAT32 to that large space...However, to defrag a Fat32 partition in that monstrous SIZE would be a challenge to your endurance. Why not transform the file system to NTFS, which can boost the efficiency of your defrag utility? NTFS won't make defrag any faster... in fact, NTFS is a slower filesystem overall, because of all the checks and rechecks to make sure data is almost never lost. Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 24, 2009, 11:15:06 PM

NTFS won't make defrag any faster... in fact, NTFS is a slower filesystem overall, because of all the checks and rechecks to make sure data is almost never lost.

I do have the personal experience to prove that. Maybe it is the different defrag software we are talking about. I use PerfectDisk as my primary defrag software. The comparison of defrag speed between FAT32 and NTFS is 1 against 100, that means defrag process on FAT32 is 100 times slower than on NTFS.

I used to spend ten hours defragging my whole 250GB disk, the partitions of which are all in FAT32. But when it COMES to a 500GB disk complete in NTFS, it consume me only an hour or so.that just means perfectdisk sucks at defragmenting basic file structures.

secondly, was it the same disk? chances are, the FAT32 drive was some old crappy 4800RPM, not exactly a fair comparison.

The OVERHEAD when dealing with an NTFS disk is higher then it is with a FAT32 drive, this applies to ANY disk operation dealing with files; NTFS needs to keep a journal of all file activity in the transaction log; FAT32 does not. this is a fact. more operations means it takes longer.

That "takes longer" is now hardly notificable even on the largest hard drives, and it's certainly worth it to use NTFS since it's a lot better then FAT32 in every respect, except pure speed, which wasn't necessarily a design goal of NTFS. Quote from: christmasguy on December 24, 2009, 11:10:06 PM

OMG...you have a partition that is 298G in Fat32? I thought it was not feasible to assign FAT32 to that large space...However, to defrag a Fat32 partition in that monstrous size would be a challenge to your endurance. Why not transform the file system to NTFS, which can boost the efficiency of your defrag utility?

hi i have been in hospital for a week just home , you seem to say that the "f32" file would take for ever , it took 35 mins to FINISH Hope everything's okay harry. And don't worry about this guy - he doesn't know what he's talking about.i thought that

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