@herbbob wrote:
How often should the compression and defragmentation be run?
Hi,
I defrag every couple of weeks, but I move some pretty large files around. For general use once a month or so will be fine.
Compression? Just what are you refering to? Disk compression? Never, use disk compression unless you have no other choice. It should only be use because you are running out of disk space and you cannot afford a larger drive. A compressed drive is a very slooooow drive. Mis Dos Centavos, Darrell Helping Dell talkers here since 1997
The old rule of thumb was compressed drives were slow. However that isn't necessarily true anymore. I can't tell the difference benchmarking reading compressed files vs noncompressed files. The reason is that processors have become *very* fast, while disk drives are much slower in comparison. If a little processor time saves you even more disk access time, then using compression can actually speed up the operation!
I go with Darrell. Compression is not needed anymore. In the early days, a huge hard drive was a 40Mb (not Gb) drive and compression was developed to get more space from a drive. With modern high capacity drives it isn't needed.
And, anytime you throw another step into an operation it does take time (may not be much but it does take time) and there is one more potential problem.
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October 30th, 2002 23:00
Hi,
I defrag every couple of weeks, but I move some pretty large files around. For general use once a month or so will be fine.
Compression? Just what are you refering to? Disk compression? Never, use disk compression unless you have no other choice. It should only be use because you are running out of disk space and you cannot afford a larger drive. A compressed drive is a very slooooow drive.
Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell
Helping Dell talkers here since 1997
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October 31st, 2002 18:00
I go with Darrell. Compression is not needed anymore. In the early days, a huge hard drive was a 40Mb (not Gb) drive and compression was developed to get more space from a drive. With modern high capacity drives it isn't needed.
And, anytime you throw another step into an operation it does take time (may not be much but it does take time) and there is one more potential problem.