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

Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote:

First off, everything is /never/ equal. Secondly, even if everything else /were/ equal, who would notice or care? Unless you are in a car race, a few percent longer or shorter on the journey is irrelevant.

I am not claiming that defragmenting has no effect - just that in the great majority of cases, it has no /relevant/ or /noticeable/ effect.

Then I take it you never upgrade your PC because it is always fast enough for you.

It is in fact almost correct that I never upgrade a PC - though I have occasionally added more memory or an extra disk. It is usually far more effective to buy a new machine when the old one is no longer sufficient for modern software.

But when I buy a new machine - typically after five years or so - I buy one that is /significantly/ faster and more powerful than the old one. That makes a real difference.

Defragging in the hope of speeding up a machine is like the people who pay most of the price of a good PC to upgrade their 3.4 GHz processor to 3.6 GHz.
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