Question about defragmenting a Hard Drive
06-13-2007, 03:47 PM
#41
Originally Posted by fla-tls
Yeah diskeeper will defragment the MFT when you choose to do a boot time defrag. This is very important in speeding up the HD. The disk defragmenter included with XP will not defrag the MFT (and yes - it was written by the same company).
M$ included MFT defragmentation in the disk defragmenter included in Server 2003. Prior to that, you had to buy a 3rd party product.
As an experiment try this:
Run a boot time chkdsk and make note of how long it takes to check the indexes (step 2). Run a boot time defrag even using the trial version of diskeeper, and make sure you've selected defrag of the MFT. Then, run the boot time chkdsk again.
My step 2 went from about a minute to about 5 seconds. Now that's a significant improvement.
M$ included MFT defragmentation in the disk defragmenter included in Server 2003. Prior to that, you had to buy a 3rd party product.
As an experiment try this:
Run a boot time chkdsk and make note of how long it takes to check the indexes (step 2). Run a boot time defrag even using the trial version of diskeeper, and make sure you've selected defrag of the MFT. Then, run the boot time chkdsk again.
My step 2 went from about a minute to about 5 seconds. Now that's a significant improvement.
06-13-2007, 03:59 PM
#42
Race Director
Originally Posted by STL+3.0CL
Someone said they De-Frag every night ??? Totally un-necessary.
What is taking up 196 gigs of space ??? Just curious
What is taking up 196 gigs of space ??? Just curious
Also it does improve the performance of the machine (nightly is probably overkill but it should be run once a month).
Especially with installing and deinstalling software.
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