On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:46:49 +0200, Fredrik Eriksson wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:07:26 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>   I have a secondary 180GB FAT32 partition
> 
> That would be the biggest problem right there. FAT32 is really horrible
> on partitions that large.
> 
> 
>> Last time I defragmented this partition was something like 3 years ago
> 
> That would be problem number two.

Concur with both of those ideas.  Thing to keep in mind as well is that 
(at least IIRC) defragmenters tend to bypass caching mechanisms, so you 
lose some performance there as well (compared to doing a file copy, for 
example).

Jim

Post a reply to this message