Re: Oblivion: Does yours crash your PC?

WDS <Bill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:284263fc-f722-4b33-b39c-73ef30cc6061@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I used to work on hard drive development and it most certainly does!
We would stress the drives by purposely scattering data around on the
drives. They work a LOT slower.


Then why doesn't Linux users defrag their HDD's if it makes such a big
difference?
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