I decided to defrag

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I decided to defrag
Topic Started: Dec 27 2008, 11:57 PM (37 Views)
SinisterSlay	Dec 27 2008, 11:57 PM Post #1
Dragon Posts: 1,797 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #1 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name PinkHairLady Main Characters Level 51 Games you play Rakion, Worms, Atlantica, MTM2	I decided to defag my drives, here are the stats: C drive, 40% fragmentation (80% of files) F drive, 70% fragmentation (90% of files) G drive, 90% fragmentation (99% of files) <--- this is the portable drive Impressive eh, maybe I should defag more often?
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SinisterSlay	Dec 28 2008, 12:01 AM Post #2
Dragon Posts: 1,797 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #1 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name PinkHairLady Main Characters Level 51 Games you play Rakion, Worms, Atlantica, MTM2	FYI my server will be going down for defagging shortly aswell.
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Electric_Bug	Dec 28 2008, 12:01 AM Post #3
Dragon Posts: 1,062 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #2 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Cannon (Atlantica) Main Characters Name Savitashri Main Characters Level 68 Games you play Atlantica, Rakion, MTM2, Worms	Alrighty
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SinisterSlay	Dec 28 2008, 12:02 AM Post #4
Dragon Posts: 1,797 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #1 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name PinkHairLady Main Characters Level 51 Games you play Rakion, Worms, Atlantica, MTM2	nvm it seems fine
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OneBlood	Dec 28 2008, 11:29 AM Post #5
Sky Blazer Posts: 170 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Member #112 Joined: November 10, 2008 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name >OneBlood< Main Characters Level 25	sooooooo, what does defragging actually do? I do it on my comp monthly. Does it just free up space?
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Electric_Bug	Dec 29 2008, 06:56 AM Post #6
Dragon Posts: 1,062 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #2 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Cannon (Atlantica) Main Characters Name Savitashri Main Characters Level 68 Games you play Atlantica, Rakion, MTM2, Worms	It rearranges your files on your harddrive to use bytes in order rather than random throughout the drive. IE) piece on byte 100120 next one on 325121 changed to 100120 then 100121
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SinisterSlay	Dec 29 2008, 08:42 AM Post #7
Dragon Posts: 1,797 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Admin Member #1 Joined: January 2, 2007 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name PinkHairLady Main Characters Level 51 Games you play Rakion, Worms, Atlantica, MTM2	basically, if a file is all together, your drive can read the entire file in one swoop of the reader, if the file is in two pieces, first it needs to read the first piece then move to the second piece, effectivly doubling the time. IF a file is in 10k pieces, well... do that math. Defagging your drive puts these files back in order.
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OneBlood	Dec 29 2008, 10:01 AM Post #8
Sky Blazer Posts: 170 Group: Fatal Combat Warrior Member #112 Joined: November 10, 2008 Main Characters Class Ninja (Rakion) Main Characters Name >OneBlood< Main Characters Level 25	I finally understand something about computers!!! Gracias
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