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Title: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 12:24:02
(https://i.imgur.com/qRhszdm.gif)

It's so slow I want to die..

Sequential transfer = 10MB/s   
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 12:47:30
Using a hard drive at all?
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:15:24
Quote from: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 12:47:30
Using a hard drive at all?

Ol'skool talkingtree,  u youngsters wouldn't understand.

(https://i.imgur.com/HYqCoq4.gif)
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53
Ha! Youngster.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:36:59
Quote from: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53
Ha! Youngster.

Did ya'll kids even Serial Port ?
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:53:45
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:36:59
Quote from: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53
Ha! Youngster.

Did ya'll kids even Serial Port ?
I used to, when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 27 January 2018, 16:12:17
Copy everything to a new drive. Then format the old.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: kiwi99 on Sat, 27 January 2018, 17:09:09
Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 27 January 2018, 16:12:17
Format the old. Then copy everything to a new drive.


FTFY
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: chyros on Sun, 28 January 2018, 04:57:24
Bah, humbug! When I was a kid, a hard drive was an expensive option (more than a whole computer costs nowadays), was 10 MB capacity, and had to be manually parked before you shut down the computer!
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 28 January 2018, 10:54:55
Yes, in the 1980s hard drive "optimizers" were vital pieces of software that many of us ran at least a few times a year.

Nowadays, every couple of years I get a new hard drive, and copy the old one over. I presume (and hope that I am correct) that it copies one file at a time in one chunk and gives me a fresh unfragmented new start.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 28 January 2018, 19:50:05
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:36:59
Quote from: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53
Ha! Youngster.

Did ya'll kids even Serial Port ?

I was serial porting on the weekend.  Had to use a USB adapter.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: Deefenestrate on Mon, 29 January 2018, 09:39:55
Flash is cheap.
Title: Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 29 January 2018, 18:03:24
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 28 January 2018, 19:50:05
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:36:59
Quote from: TalkingTree on Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53
Ha! Youngster.

Did ya'll kids even Serial Port ?

I was serial porting on the weekend.  Had to use a USB adapter.

I always have alot of trouble with usb to serial.

Data's fine, but anything else, the sync is always off.