Re: What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFS and FAT drives/partitions?

Cronos wrote
David Brown wrote

If you don't notice the effect of a supposed improvement, then it
doesn't matter. Defragging may have a /measurable/ effect on some
operations, without being noticeable - in which case, it doesn't matter.

Car A travels at 45mph, car B travels at 47mph,everything else being
equal, which do you think will reach it's destination first? Doh!

Doesnt happen with defragging, because the absolute vast bulk of linear
access to very large files is with media files where it takes EXACTLY
the same time to play the file whether its fragmented or not.


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