[MacDV] Re: Maxtor 160GB (Blue and White G3)

[illovox at comcast.net]

on 1/7/04 9:44 AM, Richard Gilmore at rgilmor at uwo.ca wrote:

> I don't want to beat this thread to death but I was thinking maybe it's a good
> thing the drive doesn't fill up entirely since when they get full they really
> slow down in performance. Perhaps 21% of it being free is a blessing in
> disguise?
> 
> Richard

They slow down then because they are likely fragmented.  Defrag and things
get quite fast again.  Now this is a can of worms I know, but it's my belief
based on experience