randall r schulz rgpoguasonicnet sunday 17 february 2008 1742 philipp thomas wrote sat 16 feb 2008 170424 0500 aaron kulkis wrote defragging took several hours ntfs partitions 40g 60g range interesting question would brought noticable speedup issues performance modern systems highly dependent pattern access applied files question always come access pattern makes even 100 contiguous file perform badly access highly uncorrelated random roughly speaking fragmentation doesnt much matter theres great deal processing involved every sector high access overhead ie fragmentation wont much matter one performing highly correlated sequential access little processing per sector file fragmentation become performance hit pretty much characterizes file copying think far away ditching whole abomination rotating magnetic storage favor purely solidstate mass storage extirpation cables world computing really really look forward development mechanical devices place computing philipp randall schulz wed 06 aug 2008 093122 0800 opensuse defragging possible necessary