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Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« on: Sat, 27 January 2018, 12:24:02 »


It's so slow I want to die..

Sequential transfer = 10MB/s   
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 27 January 2018, 12:47:30 »
Using a hard drive at all?
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 27 January 2018, 13:24:53 »
Ha! Youngster.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #4 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 ?
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 27 January 2018, 16:12:17 »
Copy everything to a new drive. Then format the old.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #7 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
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #8 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!
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 29 January 2018, 09:39:55 »
Flash is cheap.
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Re: Using a Highly Fragmented Harddrive
« Reply #12 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.
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