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18th February 2010, 13:42 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| 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/
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18th February 2010, 18:19 | #2 |
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| 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
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| 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
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