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gustojunk

04-03-2003, 04:42 PM

Hi all,

I usually defragment my hardrives with executive diskeeper. Yeasterday after runing it in both drives and ending with no fragmented files I also run Norton SpeedDisk to 'optimize' my disk. I have never use that utility before, but since it comes with my norton tools I wanted to give it a try. After a loooong optimization of both drives I went back to analyze the drives with diskeeper and I found that my drives are all fragmented again!

So who should I listen too? diskeeper or Speed dirk? is optimizing the disk different than defragmenting? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Gustavo

beaker

04-03-2003, 05:40 PM

different defragmenters order stuff differently. Lets say you have a big box of different colored marbles that your organizing in 5 different boxes. Well Diskkeeper thinks that all the blue marbles need to go in the box closest to you because it believes that you will use them the most. Well Norton thinks your going to use the green ones more so it would put them in the box closest to you. So when Norton goes to run, it thinks that your drive is not optimized because the marbles are in a different order than it believes is most efficient. Also you can customize the defragmentation in many apps to optimize for different operations(server, workstation, etc...).

Also, there are a couple dozen files that are constantly used that alsway get fragmented(log files and other text files that are constantly being written to).

GregHess

04-03-2003, 06:20 PM

Great analogy beaker :).

gustojunk

04-03-2003, 06:49 PM

Ok beaker. Thanks for the explanation. That really helps! Now my problem is that I don't know what marbles I use the most. But as long as the marbles are in some order, I'm happy. I'll stick to Diskeeper (is a workstation version) and since I've been using that for a while and things run well, I'll keep it simple that way.

Gustavo

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