3 replies to this topic

[totalz]

I tried the move to end of drive for large file function. It doesn't really move the file to end of drive but end of last file of the drive!!

[andr_gin]

I dont see a reason why large files should be moved to the end. For large files the bandwith of the harddisk is more important and this is better at the beginning. For small files only latency matters and so the position is not important.

[kmillerusaf]

andr_gin, on Jan 27 2009, 02:05 PM, said:

I dont see a reason why large files should be moved to the end. For large files the bandwith of the harddisk is more important and this is better at the beginning. For small files only latency matters and so the position is not important.

You're logic sounds correct but I'd like to offer this. And I read this from a post here on the forums. What if you don't use those bigger files very much? Well now you are taking away space for the smaller, more frequently used documents to be placed near the beginning of the hard drive. I guess both points are valid, just depends on your use of those larger files.

[htl2001]

I intend to use this so game data files don't have to all be rearranged every defrag (moving several 2GB files consumes about 90% of my defrag time)
my drive is partitioned so the game files are only at the end of the partition and not much slower that it matters