 |  |  |  |  |
Realities of Hard Drive Fragmentation
| |||||||||
|
Realities of Hard Drive Fragmentation
| | |||||||
 |
 |
| | Thread Tools |
18th February 2010, 13:42
| #1 |
| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 78,423
 |  Realities of Hard Drive Fragmentation We have all heard that defragmenting a hard drive (HDD) can give you a boost in performance. Is this just a an old wive’s tale or is it grounded in reality? http://www.overclockers.com/defrag-frag/
__________________  |
|  |
|
18th February 2010, 18:19
| #2 |
| Member  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Apenland
Posts: 2,018
 | What a bs ! A +200Mb/s read speed on a regular drive. He should have noticed something was wrong with his results because the read speeds outside of virtualbox were only 80Mb/s ... |
|
| |
|
18th February 2010, 18:25
| #3 |
| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 78,423
| Ignore max speeds, concentrate on min/avg, those are more important, and there you can see that defragging does help. also read speed of 200Mb/s is very possible on a HDD, it's what burst cache is all about 
__________________ |
|
| |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| |
