Realities of Hard Drive Fragmentation

jmke · 18th February 2010, 14:42

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, 19:19

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 ...

jmke · 18th February 2010, 19:25

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

18th February 2010, 14:42	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,008	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, 19:25	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,008	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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18th February 2010, 19:19	#2
wutske Posts: n/a	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 ...