Does Deep Optimize Defrag Free Space?

[pdun459]

Does anyone know if Smart Defrag is supposed to defrag free space when you Deep Optimize?

[solbjerg]

Hi pdun

What's to defrag? By definition empty space is empty.

But Deep optimize tries to place all information intelligently and together, not all over the disk helter skelter (that's why it is called defragmentation)

Try reading enoskype's thread "Thinking about defragmentation" in the Lounge section.

Cheers

solbjerg

 

 

Does anyone know if Smart Defrag is supposed to defrag free space when you Deep Optimize?

[pdun459]

So the answer would be yes, according to the article, "Think about Defragmentation!"

 

Thanks

[solbjerg]

Hi pdun

In the sense that it makes both the files and the free space as contiguous as possible, one could say that it defragged the empty space.

But in the really empty space there will be nothing to move/defrag so in that sense it would not matter if it defragged it or not.

As files are used and closed they will be placed where there is room, and half of a file can end up here, another part there, a third part thither and some of it in what was before activity empty space. All these fragments are then brought together and placed as close to the rim of the disk as the frequency of use warrants, in order to make it as speedily accessible as possible.

It is good to bear in mind that all activity (that means when the computer is powered up) will generate fragments, and files in use during defragmentation cannot be defragged.

Never the less a very fragmented disk will find files a bit slower than a defragmented one, sometimes so much that you can notice it. Which is why it is worthwhile to defragment.

The reading heads in a defragmented disk will have shorter to travel than if they should pick up data all over the disk, this ought to make them last longer.

But if defragment goes on all the time or very, very often you could argue that this constant extra activity puts a greater strain on the reading heads and will not make them last as long as a defragmentation once in a while.

Cheers

solbjerg

 

 

So the answer would be yes, according to the article, "Think about Defragmentation!"

 

Thanks