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incisor
29th December 2011, 01:38 PM
got an xp system in today that was running 'slowly"

did the usual cleanup things i do then went to do a defragment as the last step and to my delight it came up as 87% fragmented...

thats the most i recall seeing over the years.....
p38arover
29th December 2011, 01:40 PM
Ruddy heck!
Ranga
29th December 2011, 04:09 PM
got an xp system in today that was running 'slowly"

did the usual cleanup things i do then went to do a defragment as the last step and to my delight it came up as 87% fragmented...

thats the most i recall seeing over the years.....

NTFS?

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incisor
29th December 2011, 04:19 PM
NTFS?


yes in deedy
It'sNotWorthComplaining!
29th December 2011, 05:14 PM
got an xp system in today that was running 'slowly"

did the usual cleanup things i do then went to do a defragment as the last step and to my delight it came up as 87% fragmented...

thats the most i recall seeing over the years.....
Please explain this fragmentation? I drive a Mac and it's not in our vocabulary.;)
d@rk51d3
29th December 2011, 07:00 PM
The newer apple os's do it (defrag) automatically
incisor
29th December 2011, 07:31 PM
Please explain this fragmentation? I drive a Mac and it's not in our vocabulary.;)

Only cause you belive the Spin

Hfs fragments

Prosoft do a good utility to keep it sorted amongst other things
VladTepes
30th December 2011, 03:05 PM
Only cause you belive the Spin


Apple owners always do.... it's why they are Apple owners in the 1st place.


I don't know in % terms but this HDD is pretty well fragmented....



https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/48.jpg
d@rk51d3
30th December 2011, 04:32 PM
In this case, I believe "fragged" is the appropriate term. :)
sheerluck
30th December 2011, 05:32 PM
Apple owners always do.... it's why they are Apple owners in the 1st place.


I don't know in % terms but this HDD is pretty well fragmented....

"There's an App for that"
Chucaro
30th December 2011, 05:53 PM
"There's an App for that"

Yes, Inc have one :D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/44.jpg
dmdigital
30th December 2011, 06:22 PM
Microsoft systems always badly fragment. The file allocation and extent block size can only be tweaked so far. Unix based systems can be better but when you don't write most things in contiguous blocks what else is going to happen.

As for Apple ... can't understand why they don't have an App for that in the OS :(
d@rk51d3
30th December 2011, 06:38 PM
Microsoft systems always badly fragment. The file allocation and extent block size can only be tweaked so far. Unix based systems can be better but when you don't write most things in contiguous blocks what else is going to happen.

As for Apple ... can't understand why they don't have an App for that in the OS :(

There was the application available in the older OS variants, but as of OSX 10.x.x.x. it became an automatic funtion of the OS that ran in the background along with tweaks to the FAT to try and prevent files becoming fragmented in the first place.
incisor
30th December 2011, 08:18 PM
There was the application available in the older OS variants, but as of OSX 10.x.x.x. it became an automatic funtion of the OS that ran in the background along with tweaks to the FAT to try and prevent files becoming fragmented in the first place.

it still fragments, an quite badly at times...

i use prosoft's drive genius as it sorts it out pretty dam well imho and defragmenting can make quite a bit of difference to performance esp on the boot drive.