Hello Frank.
Only another idea about it. I think that a special kind of defragmentation is 
not mentioned. Today's disk have several diffenrent media zones, which meanes 
at some location's disk read/writes are faster. What if a defragmentation 
utility can figure out what files are used most and place that files on the 
fast part of a disk (or better volume, think of stripping) ? I think that can 
improv performance, since that different are huge on larger disk (4-9 GB).
Claas
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