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From: toms@oakhill.UUCP (Thomas Spohrer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Disk Optimizer Software
Message-ID: <720@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 17:19:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.720
Posted: Tue Jul  8 17:19:41 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jul-86 03:30:34 EDT
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Keywords: Disk Optimizer


     I have several questions about disk optimizer software.  I
understand that some improvement in speed can be realized if a disk
(hard or soft) is rewritten with all files on contigious sectors.  The
questions are as follows:

     1) Many commercial software companies claim great speed enhancements
	with thier optimizers.  Just how much faster would one honestly 
	expect the system to work?  (Typical and Best-case statisitcs
 	would be very useful.)

     2) How long do these programs take to do thier job (assume 640K of
 	RAM is available, and a 20Mb hard disk) ?  Is it faster to 
	simply back up the disk and then copy every thing back?

     3) Lastly, are there any GOOD public domain programs that can do
 	this operation?

Please mail me any information and comments and I will summarize to the
net.  Thanks in advance.

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Motorola Semiconductors                     Tom Spohrer
Austin, Texas                {seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!toms