~ Allow to allocate files & folders ~

[help_noob]

Would be nice to actually indicate where files/folder are placed on drive while defragging. :idea:

 

i.e.

 

1.) place selected file or folder to back of drive

2.) place selected file or folder to middle 30% of drive

 

:mrgreen:

[Scannan]

Hi help noob

 

I cannot see how being able to do this would help you in any way. You cannot tell the system to place a file in the back of the drive and or the middle 30% of the drive. What would happen if there was not enough contiguous sectors available in that area of the drive. The system would see a conflict and would either request further instructions or else just hang.

The optimisation feature of Smart Defrag does all this way better than any human can do it. It looks at your file access history and places the most often used at the beginning of the disc and the least often used at the end of the disc. Thus improving the file access time. I fail to see why you would think you could do this better manually.

[TJB1982]

Hi help noob

 

I cannot see how being able to do this would help you in any way. You cannot tell the system to place a file in the back of the drive and or the middle 30% of the drive. What would happen if there was not enough contiguous sectors available in that area of the drive. The system would see a conflict and would either request further instructions or else just hang.

The optimisation feature of Smart Defrag does all this way better than any human can do it. It looks at your file access history and places the most often used at the beginning of the disc and the least often used at the end of the disc. Thus improving the file access time. I fail to see why you would think you could do this better manually.

 

Scannan something along these lines would be useful for gamers because than we could make sure the games we currently play are in the beginning of the drive for faster access.

[Scannan]

If you play them regularly, then when you use the optimisation function in Smart Defrag, it will automatically place them at or near the beginning of the disc. Even if there was a way of manually putting your game at the beginning, you must realise that every time you play, new information will be written to the game and it is very likely that this will have to be placed in other areas of the disc. Therefore deframenting will still be required.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily, and I am confident that Smart Defrag will place your game(s) in the optimum position on the disc. So, relax and enjoy your gaming.

[TJB1982]

If you play them regularly, then when you use the optimisation function in Smart Defrag, it will automatically place them at or near the beginning of the disc. Even if there was a way of manually putting your game at the beginning, you must realise that every time you play, new information will be written to the game and it is very likely that this will have to be placed in other areas of the disc. Therefore deframenting will still be required.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily, and I am confident that Smart Defrag will place your game(s) in the optimum position on the disc. So, relax and enjoy your gaming.

 

I understand that Scannon but I for one open the same game over and over again to complete it... Than move on to the next one so by the time I open the next one enough times for smart defrag to prioritize it I'm on to another one. I understand new information will be written so please don't assume that I have no experience I am a loyal IOBIT fan but I have noticed some performance loss when going from one game to another. Just because other peoples input does not match your usage is no reason to say we don't have a point. Even in the process of playing a game if new data is written in a different section of the drive that still would beat the entire game being scattered piece by piece through the drive. Most of the newer data would be put into the paging file as you are playing the game. It has been my experience that making a descent size paging file helps drastically (at least with my configuration).

[Orange]

Making an optimization would take too long and I know it would be worth it for the entire disk to be up and running at a optimal state(not for forever :lol: ).

 

There is no need to doubt for this suggestion for I and some random Smart defrag users, have faith in IObit to have Smart defrag (IF help_noob's suggestion actually turns into some kind of feature in the future version) to most likely move away the files from the desired sector's location & size to available sectors to make way for the desired game's data to be written.