Re: Is there any truth to this claim: "Keep space on your hard drive"

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Defragmenter_%28Windows%29 - 15% is
required to do a full defrag. Is there anything else that could impinged on
performance other than contigous files?

Cheers
Mark

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Herb Warren <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mark Levison<mark-r0EpITdELjZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]<mark%40mlevison.com>>
> wrote:
> > I see it made frequently in the photographic world - yet it seems to be
> > complete BS to me. I can understand a warning that you should keep 10-20
> GB
> > but - 40%? Why.
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> 40% seems high - OTOH, defrag s/w frequently requires (or works better
> with) around 30% free, so it's not completely unreasonable. If you
> assume the boot disk is also the home of %TEMP% and %TMP%, pagefiles,
> etc, then maybe you can justify the free space. I tend to move all of
> the above off the system drive.
>
> Herb.
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