Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!drivax!liberato From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: hard disk de-fragmenter Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 90 03:55:56 GMT References: <90004.231733MHS108@PSUVM.BITNET> <538@tuura.UUCP> Reply-To: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California Lines: 20 pen@tuura.UUCP (Pekka Niemi) writes: > I have been using Golden Bow, Inc.'s (hope I recall the name right 8-) > 'Vopt' for several years and still value it over PCTool's 'compress' > and Norton Utilities. It is interesting to pit the various "deframenters" against each other. For example, Vopt and Norton's SD seem to use completely opposite notions of what is optimum. Use one or the other first and then use the second one. The supposedly optimum disk is seen as being all messed up by the second one. and it takes forever for it to redo the work of the first one! Quite hilarious. Vopt is definitely the quickest. SD puts all the directories first which many prefer. PCT Compress is the most sophisticated and "careful" (though someone here did mention a bad experience with it). I have no recommendations to make because I don't think they are all that important (unless your hardrive is a real slug). -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato