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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskExpress Version 1.5
Keywords: DiskExpress
Message-ID: <11021@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 19 Nov 88 13:51:20 GMT
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In article <3fb8bb6c.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes:
>In article <1066@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Paul G. Nevai) writes:
>>
>>
>>I got my DiskExpress 1.5 yesterday. I unfragmented my harddisk with priori-
>>tize files option on. On a Mac II it took 27 minutes to move 292MEGs. Wow!!!
>>I am impressed. The last time I did this operation it was on a MacPlus with
>>20Megs. It used to take an entire night.
>
>Problem is, it only moves files instead of putting all the free space at the
>end.  So you have a lot of small free areas on your hard drive instead of one
>big one.  The practical upshot is that yur hard-drive will refragment itself
>faster this time than the last, until you do the slow, full optimization.
>

Wrong.  If you read his post, it states >> with prioritize files option on <<.
This moves all files to the front and leaves all free space at the end.

The new Quick-Optimize feature is like SUM's hard disk tuneup which
unfragments the FILES, not the DISK.

The new Disk Express 1.5 is definitely faster.  Whether it's worth the $10
upgrade depends on how often you use it.

Ken

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