[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 09:36:47 CST 2008


nate at portents.com wrote:
>> NTFS seems *extrmeely* sensitive to fragmentation even on
>> fairly-high-performance drives which support NCQ, but Microsoft might
>> just have screwed up royally.  Quite possible.
> 
> If you have to use Windows/NTFS, I highly recommend this program:
> 
> http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
> 
> If you can make use of it's screensaver, I think it's a great way to keep
> NTFS defragmented/optimized.

I've been using PerfectDisk, and it does the job.  The screensaver thing 
wouldn't really help, since my disk is *never* idle, unless I manually 
stop running processes, like I do before running PerfectDisk.

Peace...  Sridhar



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