(07-08-2012, 11:48 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: its not only fragmentation that affects small file access, but location on the platter. Windows boot logs keep track of what files are accessed in what order and likes to keep these files in order on the disk
Oh ok, didn't know about that. That's a bonus from Windows' defragmenting program that's not directly linked to defrag though.
(07-08-2012, 11:48 AM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: Its when you get to poorly made video games that chain content loading from hundreds of package files (the sims does this) that defragging really shows its worth
Yeah, I'm kind of happy modern consoles keep optical discs with big seek times for that reason... it makes gamedevs think a bit about IO latency due to non linear disc accesses. Unfortunately some PC only gamedevs seem to ignore that