nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) (04/16/89)
In the IBM world, there are several good public domain programs that allow one to unfragment your hard drive. These programs reorganize the sectors of the hard disk so that all the sectors of a file are together. That way, seek time and mechanical wear is minimized because the hard disk does not have to scan all over the surface of the media to read sectors that are not contiguous. Does any such program exist in the Mac realm? Where can I find them. Thanks. nghiem@emx.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nghiem
david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles) (04/17/89)
From article <12085@ut-emx.UUCP>, by nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem): > These programs reorganize the sectors of the hard disk so that all > the sectors of a file are together. > Does any such program exist in the Mac realm? Where can I find > them. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PC TOOLS DELUXE by Central Point Software has an Optimizer. It took approximately 4 minutes to do the 20 Meg internal on the SE I use. It has several options, one being an analyze button to show the space used, free, #folders, #files, and the # of fragmented files, so one can compare the difference by analyzing before and after optimizing. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EOT
clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye) (04/17/89)
There is a program that I found that defragments your disk that I found in our MUG library. Haven't tried it yet so I don't know whether its shareware or PD. It's called OVERDRIVE, and I expect that any MUG library would have a copy. Try the Berkeley MUG. They have EVERYTHING!!! Chris
rdsesq@Jessica.stanford.edu (Rob Snevely) (04/17/89)
I don't know of a PD app. but AlSoft makes a great disk optimizer called DiskExpress. I does the best job of any I have found. Much better then SUM. I think it is about $40.00 retail. so you could probably get it Mail Order for about $32. I don't work for AlSoft. I just use some of there products. rob rdsesq@jessica.stanford.edu
moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (04/19/89)
There are three commercial optimizers I know of these days: the one with the
SUM tools, Disk Express and PowerOP. I use Disk Express because:
1) I've used it for years, and it's never screwed up.
2) It's the only optimizer that has a choice of fast optimization (which
the other optimizers use), where files are concatinated together again,
and the longer optimization, where the free space on the disk is made
contigous again. This is a VERY HAND FEATURE if you are going to be
partitioning your disk. I hope that SUM decides to add this feature to
their disk optimizer, since they have partitioning software in SUM.
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