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CH> SJ>   Can anyone recommend a decent defragmentation program for
CH>NT4.0?
CH>If you are able to, and are running FAT, just use W95's DEFRAG.
CH>There is a program called DKLITE (Diskeeper Lite) that is freeware,
CH>for NTFS, but It isn't very good. That could be because NTFS really
CH>doesn't need defragging all that much anyway. I got DKLITE and really
CH>wasn't very impressed with it. It was great at drawing butt ugly
CH>pictures of how fragmented the  drive was and turned out to a
CH>terrible de-fragger. It would churn and burn for a couple of hours
CH>and then show the drive to be about as fragmented as it was before it
CH>put all that wear and tear on my hard drive. There probably isn't a
CH>decent selection of de-fraggers for NTFS because it just isn't all
CH>that necessary. I've been running my NT Server's drives for almost 4
CH>years with NTFS and have never bothered defragging them and probably 
nev
CH>er will.
Chris,
My experiences have been pretty much the same.  I've found things like 
clsuter size allocations, % of usage, striping and other things make far 
more of a difference with performance than fragmentation.  Maybe on 
drives with real slow seek times, it might be a bigger issue.
Jeff
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