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CanadianM24

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  1. The reason why I don't like PerfectDisk and always haven't, is because it puts half of the files at the front of the disk, and the other half at the end of the disk. I have to ask... "why?!!!"

    Data loads a lot faster when its at the front of the disk, so most other commercial defragmenters place data at the front. [/quote:341c04d8f9]

    The data at the END of the disk is faster, not the beginning. Same is true for CD ROM drives - do a search to find out how variable speed CD ROM drives work. I just read an article about how XP takes advantage of this -

    "For example, XP watches which applications you use and, once every 3 days during idle time, it will automatically place the associated files near one another on the hard drive and closer to the more dense outer edge of the disk. This reduces the seek times and should improve application launch speed, especially on larger hard drives."

    find the whole thing at

    ht*p://www.zdnet.com/feeds/cgi/framer/hud0002500/www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2809517,00.html

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