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From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: dealing with fragmentation (was Re: SUM ( HD Partition ))
Message-ID: <8657@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 04:52:37 GMT
References: <3082@utastro.UUCP>
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From article <3082@utastro.UUCP>, by werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig):
>[many worries and steps]

While I'm sure being bitten by a failure during disk reordering wasn't
fun, it's really no different from other forms of disk failure, is it?
If you have a backup, you use it.

I've (and it seems many others) used Disk Express for years, and found
it to work perfectly.  And it's extended capabilities seem important.

As you say, the long files are the most necessary ones, and Disk Express
does them all.  Perhaps even more important, Disk Express reorders system, 
application, and document files for efficient use with the resource scheme 
which is key to the Mac.

The end result is that slow disks (20/30 meg, without the voice coil
seek technology) run quite noticeably more quickly.  Worth it.

Incidentally, so is use of the Mac's disk caching; 32k helps, 64-18k
seems ideal, according to tests I made when I used one of these disks.

Clive