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ZL1ABS > HDD 09.01.08 19:49l 27 Lines 978 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Read: DK5SG GUEST DO1BRT DC1GFV DD3IA
Subj: Re: Hard Disc Drive DEFRAG?.
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From: ZL1ABS@ZL1AB.#06.NZL.OC
To : HDD@WW
Hi Andy,
Yes that sounds quite "normal" compared with my own PC running Win98se.
The main HDD has to be used for "swap" files & virtual memory when moving
files to/from the defrag area. So this slows down things. Besides the main
HDD has the O/S on it & other "processes" besides the defrag are
reading/writing to the HDD, slowing things down & sometimes causing the
defrag to restart, which also increases the defrag overal time.
When the second HDD is defrag the "temp data" is shuffled to the main HDD
then back to the second HDD & defrag goes much faster. The O/S use of the
main HDD doesn't "get in the way" of defrag the second HDD, so this also
means the second HDD defrags faster.
Possibly the second HDD has fewer fragmentations? The main HDD gets more
fragmentations over time as the O/S reads/writes log files etc everytime
the PC is turned on & temp files are made whenever a program is run.
73 de Michael ZL1ABS
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