But even with FAT32 defrag will never make significant performance gains
unless the space has previously been completely filled. If the system
has a large drive that's never been filled up defrag has nothing to do.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/14/2012 5:56 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Defragging one old office computer with Fat 32 generally only used by
> one office staff to run excel is profoundly enhanced by defragging,
> never reexamined the issue until the comments here.
>
> Doing a bit more digging, Dr. Disk appears to be nearly if not wholly
> spot on.
>
> PC World 2011
> "Defragging and Optimizing:
> In days past (the age of FAT16 and FAT32), regularly defragging a hard
> drive made a noticeable difference in the speed with which it loaded
> applications and data--now, not as much. Even so, optimization--placing
> large, often-used files such as Outlook .pst files in the
> quickest-to-load location on your hard drive--can speed things up"
>
> Then found this including comments from Steve Gibson:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/214678/defragging_why_how_and_whether.html
>
> The author recommends running the windoze one for the reasons
> mentioned once a month.
>
> I have always been impressed with Spinrite--now that has been a good
> utility.
> One thing about defragging is it does refresh the data and all things
> look quite neat--excellent placebo effect as well. It is free afterall.
> It does make data recovery possibly easier as mentioned. Some
> suggest start up time Might be imroved though I have not seen hard data
> on that.
>
> Mike
>
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