totalz Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I tried the move to end of drive for large file function. It doesn't really move the file to end of drive but end of last file of the drive!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andr_gin Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I dont see a reason why large files should be moved to the end. For large files the bandwith of the harddisk is more important and this is better at the beginning. For small files only latency matters and so the position is not important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmillerusaf Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I dont see a reason why large files should be moved to the end. For large files the bandwith of the harddisk is more important and this is better at the beginning. For small files only latency matters and so the position is not important. You're logic sounds correct but I'd like to offer this. And I read this from a post here on the forums. What if you don't use those bigger files very much? Well now you are taking away space for the smaller, more frequently used documents to be placed near the beginning of the hard drive. I guess both points are valid, just depends on your use of those larger files. There's always an exception to the rule. I'm that exception. Desktop ----- AMD Athlon 3700+ (2.64Ghz), 2GB DDR 400, ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, 500GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP3, Avira Antivir Personal At work ----- Intel C2D T1700 (1.6Ghz), 2GB DDR2 667, Dell OUY141, 80GB HD, Windows XP Pro SP2, Symantec 10 Laptop ----- Intel C2D P8400 (2.4 Ghz), 4GB DDR3 1066, Mainboard, 160GB HD, Dualboot: Windows 7/openSUSE 11.1, Avira Antivir Personal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htl2001 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I intend to use this so game data files don't have to all be rearranged every defrag (moving several 2GB files consumes about 90% of my defrag time) my drive is partitioned so the game files are only at the end of the partition and not much slower that it matters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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