With your firm grasp of the basics, please explain
why defrag tools are often thought to be effective
Just the usual mindless acceptance of claims without
actually trying a defrag and seeing if it makes any difference.
Just another example of stupid kids who believe what they
read without putting their ear to ear dog shit into gear.
(i.e. why Microsoft supplies one with Windows
Because it did make a difference at one time and if they didnt,
lots of anal dills would be howling about it being left out.
and why Symantec makes SpeedDisk)
They make anything that enough will buy.
and why, in reality, they're not.
Because using them is undetectable in a double blind trial
without being allowed to use a ute that displays fragmentation.
Seems to me it makes sense that if a file is located in
one continuous block of data, it can be read in one motion,
rather than in a couple of different read cycles, thus being
quicker. Obviously, this turns out not to be true. Why?
Basically because modern systems move the heads
around for lots more than just between the fragments
of a file and the extra movement between fragments
is a very small part of the total head movements.
And the why is completely academic anyway.
What matters is if the difference is detectable or not.