Large files and performance

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In a word: No. The movies do not increase the fragmentation of your hard
disk (so long as you're not editing them); they're more likely to be stored
in one continuous block.

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"Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does having allot of large files (movies 600MB+) affect HD performance?
> I have at least 20 movie files of 600MB or more on my DELL 8400 and the
> performance has been degrading lately.
>
> Applying what I know about clustering and fragmentation, I am only
assuming
> that data access my always skip over these larger consecutive clusters.
>
> My drive is formatted in NTFS and I have 512 MB of RAM with a P4 3.0
> Hyper-threading.
>

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"" wrote:
> "Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Does having allot of large files (movies 600MB+) affect HD
> performance?
> >I have at least 20 movie files of 600MB or more on my DELL
> 8400 and the
> >performance has been degrading lately.
> >
> >Applying what I know about clustering and fragmentation, I am
> only assuming
> >that data access my always skip over these larger consecutive
> clusters.
> >
> >My drive is formatted in NTFS and I have 512 MB of RAM with a
> P4 3.0
> >Hyper-threading.
>
> As your hard drive gets filled up the drive head mechanism
> will be
> traversing longer distances as it moves between the various
> items on
> the drive. Longer distances mean increased time and to that
> extent
> performance will be affected. But this is a function of the
> total
> amount of data on the drive not the size of the individual
> files.
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
> http://aumha.org/alex.htm

It would anyways be a gud idea to defragment regularly or keep the
fragmentation levels under check.

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