[X4U] IDefrag points out files that I am clueless about

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 11/27/06 5:10 PM, Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> On 27 Nov 2006, at 22:07, Lee Licata wrote:
>> ...
>> Lastly, would NEVER try to defrag by running off a CD. Would think
>> it would take forever, and it cannot be written to by the program....
> 
> What makes you think that it would take forever? Why would the
> program NEED to write to the CD?
> 
> CDs are indeed slower than hard-drives, but once the o/s &
> application are loaded into RAM (assuming an adequate amount) then
> disk access to them should not be required.

>From personal experience, running DiskWarrior while booted from the
DiskWarrior CD is much slower than running it while booted from an external
FireWire drive. I can say the same about other programs that require
affected drives to be non-booted (Drive Genius, etc.)

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves
Stockton, CA