Defrag or not ?

[mrmoonlight]

Hi i have a 1200 amiga with a 20gb hard drive ,i was wondering if i should be defraging  or running any thing in the way of maintanance ,as i do deleat a lot of mp3s and othere stuff ,i use os 3.9 and have a matrix fitted ,so if i do need to run some thing what should i use ,best wishes Brian.

[zipper]

You can't - except using diskmontools. Probably copying to another drive and then copying back is faster.

[mrmoonlight]

You can't - except using diskmontools. Probably copying to another drive and then copying back is faster.

Hi thanks for your reply,so would it be ok to carry on without defraging .

[Matt_H]

Hi thanks for your reply,so would it be ok to carry on without defraging .

Yes. I have never defragged an Amiga drive and don't intend to.

[mrmoonlight]

Yes. I have never defragged an Amiga drive and don't intend to.

Hi thanks for your reply,i will carry on as i am then ,so does the Amiga just keep going by its self ,and no need to do any thing ?,have you ever added any cooling fans ?.

[save2600]

Yes. I have never defragged an Amiga drive and don't intend to.

Ditto. Regarding cooling fans, only time I'd ever bugger with that is if you have an overclocked 030 or an 040/060 and/or an Indivision AGA installed. Otherwise, leave it alone unless you feel lots of heat coming through the case.

[matthey]

Generally fragmentation is not too bad with FFS. Most defrag programs are old and could cause problems for little gain from defragging. If you are worried about HD performance or fragmentation then I would recommend you try PFS 3 which is better at both...

http://aminet.net/disk/misc/PFS3_53.lha http://aminet.net/disk/misc/PFS3_53.readme

Ditto. Regarding cooling fans, only time I'd ever bugger with that is if you have an overclocked 030 or an 040/060 and/or an Indivision AGA installed. Otherwise, leave it alone unless you feel lots of heat coming through the case.

It's good to have a cooling fan for almost any 68040 IMHO. The 68030 and 68060 don't need it unless overclocked.

[mrmoonlight]

Ditto. Regarding cooling fans, only time I'd ever bugger with that is if you have an overclocked 030 or an 040/060 and/or an Indivision AGA installed. Otherwise, leave it alone unless you feel lots of heat coming through the case.

Hi thanks very much,i dont have any thing overclocked ,and there is not a lot of heat coming out of the case ,but i do use the Matrix accelerator ,and that gets a little warm ,the only problem i have with my 1200 is with the sound,the games sounds are awesome and no problems there ,but i have a lot of problems with the mp3 s and the amplifier ,after a few songs have played it freezes up ,and i have to reboot ,and the same thing happens again ,i thought she might be getting a little hot ,hence the mention of cooling fans.

[zipper]

The only thing that defragging may help a lot is when making big backup operations; with a fragmented drive the read operation may take ages.

[mrmoonlight]

Thanks to all for there help ,Brian xx

[Roj]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my take is that defragging has always been digital snake oil. No two apps read data the in the same sequence. What's optimal for one will likely be inefficient for the other 131.