Need for Defrag with FastTrack? Nah

[mrpc]

Greetings all!

Back in the old days BF (before FastTrack) I used to defrag my video HD before every session. Since I got the FastTrack (using to Fireball 18GB KAs) I've noticed no dropped frames without defragging even at 75% capacity (sometimes I don't floss either- I really live on the edge).

Has anyone else noticed this? I guess with the kind of sustained throughput and seek times of the KAs the need to defrag to support a (paltry) 3MB/s data stream is just not there.

Regards,,
Richard

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Abit BH6; 300A@450; 128MB
FastTrack66 dual KA 18GB; Marvel 200; MX300

[DrMordrid]

Yes, this is typical of the Fasttraks.

My understanding is that the FT writes to the each of the drive headers differently. One headers drives are written inside track to outside track. The other headers drives are written to outside track to inside track.

This evens out the performance so you pretty much the same throughput over the entire capacity of the array. Very handy.

Also whenever I've checked the fragmentation of the array it's so low as to not need defragging. Even so defragging takes so long that a full format is the more practical option.

Dr. Mordrid