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Re: Defragmenter for low-spec Amigas?
« on: February 14, 2013, 07:39:48 AM »
All you have to do is:
1. Copy all files over to another, empty partition.  This new partition is now defragulated.

2. You can now delete everything off the first partition, then copy everything back if you like.

Works on every Amiga with any amount of RAM.

I suggest adding some buffers using the AddBuffers command before you do your mass copy because it will speed things up a lot.  If you have the RAM you can do AddBuffers 1000 to both source and destination drives.

This idea works even better when you have 2 separate hard drives.  There is less head-thrashing that way so the copying goes much faster.

Or if you use a solid state hard drive that eliminates the head thrashing also.
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Re: Defragmenter for low-spec Amigas?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2013, 02:12:57 PM »
Quote from: bloodline;726342
If you use Solid State media, then forget about fragmentation. It it not an issue for these devices as there is no physical difference where the blocks that make up the file are stored. Contiguous or as far apart as the physical media allows, the time to select a block will be te same.


100% True.  Fragmentation does not hurt Flash drives.
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