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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Any Speeddisk Type Utils?
Message-ID: <4818.AA4818@sosaria>
Date: 13 Jun 90 21:26:55 GMT
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In article <13884@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) says:

> Does anyone know of any utilities to speed up hard disks. In other words
> to de-fragment the hard disk. I would prefer something public domain. But
> if you know of anything commercial let me know.

BAD comes to mind. However, when it comes to safety, speed, efficiency and
such there are worlds between BAD and PC based products like PCTools
Compress 5.5 or Norton SpeedDisk.

It's slow, eats LOTS of memory and is not 100% stable. And if you get a
crash while BAD is working prepare to re-format your HD and restore your
backup...


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