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Need to Run Defrag on NT4 SP6 with NTFS?
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I've always been assured that NTFS partitions don't need defragmenting. It's never been explained to me why this is so, but I know for a fact that Novell servers use an algorithm to prevent fragmentation, so it makes sense that NTFS may use something similar.
The fact that there are NTFS defragmenter tools out there clouds the issue of course, which leaves me thinking that perhaps their roles aren't as complex as FAT defragmenters are.
The fact that there are NTFS defragmenter tools out there clouds the issue of course, which leaves me thinking that perhaps their roles aren't as complex as FAT defragmenters are.
justcurious
MIS
When MS first introduced NTFS, they claimed that defragmentation is not necessary. NTFS may be able to deal with fragmentation more efficiently than FAT16, however fragmentation certainly occurs and eventually bogs your system down.
It's interesting that Win2K shipped with a defragger.
DiskKeeper is a good tool to use when your hard drive has lots of free space, but fails to do an adequate job when free space is down to around 15% and the disk is heavily fragmented. I have seen it make the situation worse by leaving the drive more fragmented than when it began.
We were using v5. Perhaps later versions are more efficient.
I have found that Norton SpeedDisk is a much more efficient tool. It seems to run quicker and doesn't complain about insufficient free space.
It's interesting that Win2K shipped with a defragger.
DiskKeeper is a good tool to use when your hard drive has lots of free space, but fails to do an adequate job when free space is down to around 15% and the disk is heavily fragmented. I have seen it make the situation worse by leaving the drive more fragmented than when it began.
We were using v5. Perhaps later versions are more efficient.
I have found that Norton SpeedDisk is a much more efficient tool. It seems to run quicker and doesn't complain about insufficient free space.
Try diskeeper or the Nortons/
NTFS certainly DOES get fragmented. Before we started defragging our NT4 servers, they would literally take an hour to go down and come back up. After the first good defrag we did, takes less than a minute to go down and another minute or two to come back up.
NTFS certainly DOES get fragmented. Before we started defragging our NT4 servers, they would literally take an hour to go down and come back up. After the first good defrag we did, takes less than a minute to go down and another minute or two to come back up.
devastator
IS-IT--Management
Wininternals defrag works great and can be loaded centrally on a workstation or server to defrag your entire network. You can purchase by licenses and setup a schedule that everytime it runs it loads a small piece on the server / workstation, defrags and removes the program until next time it runs and it is quick.
We run Diskeeper ver 7, 8's now out, and it does turn it nose up when it runs low on drive space.... but it has been very reliable on the NTFS file servers, that we run it upon.
when we first install diskeeper, we found some of our servers were so defragmentated that we had to run boot time defrags.. which are long and scary!... but since then they have performed like a dream..
when we first install diskeeper, we found some of our servers were so defragmentated that we had to run boot time defrags.. which are long and scary!... but since then they have performed like a dream..
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