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

[Mark M. Florida]

Can we not agree to disagree?  ;-)  I think this discussion has been run
into the ground on this list...

In the many discussions we've had in the past week or so, I think the
consensus we can all agree on is that you need to do what works for YOU.  If
your drives are cranky and defragging makes them happy, then go for it.  If
you haven't defragged (or reformatted) in years and you don't have problems,
then that's great too...

Whatever works for you is what you should do...

- Mark


On 1/7/04 5:42 PM, Richard Gilmore at rgilmor at uwo.ca wrote:

> Quoting Peter van der Linden <pvdl at afu.com>:
> 
> 
>> So far no one has produced any evidence.
> 
> Neither have you.
> 
>> You understand that it is up
>> to those making a claim to produce the evidence in support, right?  The
>> person who disbelieves a claim is entitled to ask for the evidence on
>> which it is based.  None has been produced, nor will it be, since the
>> belief is bogus.
> 
> Says you.
> 
>> If you make a claim "A", and someone says "I don't
>> believe you", then you lose the argument if you can't support your
>> claim, e.g. if your response is "bupkiss, whatever works for you" or
>> "prove it".
> 
> And where's the support for your claim?
> 
>> Regardless, when I get the time, I will write some benchmarks to show
>> (one way or the other) that "defragmenting" a disk does nothing of
>> significance for I/O performance for MacOS 10.3.
> 
> You will write the benchmarks, which of course will totally agree with your
> argument. How about an independant third party evaluation. Is there any?
> 
> 
> 
> Richard