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  • Re: TidBITS#686/30-Jun-03

    From Peter KERR@user@host.domain to comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 14:43:05
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    TidBITS#686/30-Jun-03

    Before you spend hours optimizing your Mac's hard disk, read David
    Shayer's article on why it's a waste of time.

    Hmmm, mebbe your Mac doesn't go any faster, but what about disk life? If
    the head's not thrashing back & forth between catalog and fragments,
    will the disk last longer? I'd always believed a quiet disk was a happy
    disk, but...
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  • From matt neuburg@matt@tidbits.com to comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 05:37:14
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In <010720032314027730%star@sky.net> Davoud wrote:
    TidBITS#686/30-Jun-03:
    Before you spend hours optimizing your Mac's hard disk, read
    David Shayer's article on why it's a waste of time..

    Peter KERR:
    Hmmm, mebbe your Mac doesn't go any faster, but what about disk life?
    If the head's not thrashing back & forth between catalog and
    fragments, will the disk last longer? I'd always believed a quiet
    disk was a happy disk, but...

    While the topic of your post on its own is certainly appropriate for
    this forum, I'm not certain that this is the best forum in which to
    reply to a TidBits article. The forum at tidbits.com might be more
    effective

    TidBITS-Talk would be a good forum, but the topic itself is certainly of interest. Personally I regard the article as mistaken, or perhaps just deliberately controversial; I run DiskWarrior and PlusOptimizer on my
    disks from time to time, and I notice a considerable improvement in
    speed when I do. m.

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