Originally Posted by
DallasBill
.....Program defragging is a good, but secondary purpose, and usually involves placing your most used programs contiguously towards the center of the disk where seek time is fastest....
Is this done automatically (with the Windows defragger, Norton defragger, JkDefrag ...)?
I have a feeling, that your very interesting comments describe what is in the books (how it should be), not what really happens?!
BTW, Jeroen Kessels believes:
...Optimize:
On most harddisks the beginning of the harddisk is considerably faster than the end, sometimes by as much as 200 percent!...
It was my understanding too, that
placing your most used programs contiguously towards the center of the disk is the best way to optimize seek times. It probably depends on the software/driver.