Originally Posted by Porsche911r101
lol people are so misinformed arent they.
hdd speed is the same say 7200rpm therefore where files are located on the hdd doesnt matter, so no point in defragmenting.
The place where the files located on the disk are important and does effect performance although margionally, you can prove this by creating two partitions and installing the same OS to each... the partition at the front of the disk will always benchmark margionally faster on access and read/write tests.
The only file systems that do not require defraging are those which do not fragment such as ext2