[MacDV] Re: Optimize

[Mark M. Florida]

But on the other hand, if you defrag your drive too much, you could 
actually cause premature drive failure due to the high level of disk 
activity that is going on in this process.  I say once a month MAX!  I 
never defrag my drives, and I always seem to have enough performance 
for doing audio and video (even on a Blue G3/400).  But if you have 
smaller/slower drives, then defragging could help if you are 
experiencing dropped frames or generally slow audio/video playback 
performance.

Someone mentioned this earlier, and I'll bring it up again as well...  
If you can afford it, just get two drives, and if you keep them both 
only half full, you can just copy files from one to the other and back 
again to defrag your drive.  So you would:

- copy files from fragmented drive to second drive
- reformat fragmented drive (keep the drive name the same)
- copy files back to freshly formatted drive
- enjoy

Hope this helps.

- Mark

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Preston wrote:

> Yup, just as Daniel said.
>
>>
>> No. DiskWarrior rebuilds and writes an optimized directory. 
>> Optimizing or defragmenting the drive with an app like PlusOptimizer 
>> (included with DiskWarrior) rewrites the entire disk without 
>> fragmenatation. This helps both the performance of your drive, and 
>> adds to the life of it.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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