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Subject: Re: defrag
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At 15:21 28/08/2008, RW wrote:


> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:40 +0200
> > Eduardo Morras <emorras@xroff.net> wrote:
> >
> > > No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily
> > > fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and
> > > more fragmented.
>
>How did you measure it? AFAIK the percentage fragmentation figures given
>by windows tools and fsck, aren't measured on the same basis.

I run jkdefrag. I outs an image of fragmented files. In practice 
work, when i defrag the data disks i get 30-40 (even 50) MB/s when 
copying files using a Gigabit ethernet and ftp. This copy speed drops 
to 9-10 MB/s after some days of work.