POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Why is defragging so slow? : Re: Why is defragging so slow? Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:24:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why is defragging so slow?  
From: scott
Date: 4 Jun 2009 06:03:57
Message: <4a279c0d$1@news.povray.org>
>  So because Windows is unable to defragment a big file I should buy a
> new hard drive?

If you really want the file defragmented, then yes, this might be the 
cheapest way if you consider how much your time is worth.

> Exactly how is that going to help?

Well just the act of copying it over to another hard drive will probably 
defragment it, and having more than 9GB of free space on a new hard drive 
will likely make your life easier in terms of fragmented files in future.


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