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Defragmentation FAT32 volumes (Users)

posted by sol, 07.07.2008, 23:28

> Note that not every fragmentation is a drive movement. Cylinders are
> probably also way bigger. So if the HD driver tries to place fragments
> near, it will still be read/written in a single spin.

The only time this would be the case is if the hd driver read the data after the requested sectors in the original call. Otherwise, the drive would read the requested cluster and continue spinning, getting the next requested cluster on the next spin.

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