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“Everything you know or have e
ever learrned abo
out defrragmenttation an
nd
de
efragme
enting yo
our hard
d drive is wrong
g!”
Tha
at's right.... every
ything you have p reviously learned about file
e fragmen
ntation an
nd
defragmenta
ation is wrong!
w
Clos
se your e
eyes, coun
nt to 10 and
a
erase
e everythiing you have read , learned or think you
kno
ow about defragme
entation. If your b
brain has a delete key,
k
presss it now!
The
ere are ab
bout 20 other defra
ag progra
ams out there
t
on the
t
marke
et, some free, som
me
paid
d, all tryin
ng to sell you on the
t
meritss of defra
agging your hard d
drive. Unffortunatelly
they, and their produ
ucts, are selling
s
yo u short and not giving you the perfo
ormance
gain
ns they are claimin
ng.
Thrrough these pages, you're going
g
to b
be re-edu
ucated and
d learn th
he true ob
bjective
scie
ence behind file fra
agmentattion and h
how to tru
uly improve your h
hard drive
e
perrformance
e via the defragme
d
entation p
process.
The
ere is only
y one softtware pro
oduct in t he world that enab
bles you tto do it. It's
I
found
ded
upo
on the objjective sc
cience of it all - a l ittle bit of
o Pareto's
s Law; a llittle bit of
o
thermodynamics; a little bit off angular velocity and a little bit of a few othe
er scientific
prin
nciples.
It's called UltimateDe
efrag.
“W
What The
ey Don't Tell You
u About File Fragmentation....”
”
File
e fragmen
ntation is only a minor cont ributor to
o reduced hard driv
ve perforrmance.
The
ere are 2 other priimary rea
asons forr reduced hard driv
ve perform
mance an
nd they
con
ntribute m
more to ha
ard drive performa
ance degrradation than
t
file ffragmenta
ation. The
ey
are:
T
physical position of you
ur files on
n your hard drive.
1. The
This
s is what afffects your transfer
t
rattes and con
ntributes around 35
5% to hard
d drive pe
erformance
e
loss
s.
2. The
T
span or spread
d of your files also
o known as
a the see
ek confine
ement.
This
s is what afffects your seek
s
times and also c
contributes
s around 55%
5
to ha
ard drive performan
p
nce
loss
s.
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Then
n comes...
3. File
F fragm
mentation
This
s is what afffects individual file read perform
mance and only
o
contributes abo
out 10% to
t hard driive
perfformance loss.
By using deffrag softw
ware that only defrrags fragm
mented files, and tthat is prretty much
eve
ery other defrag prroduct on the mark
ket, you are
a only improving
i
g your ha
ard drive
perrformance
e by, at best, 15%
%. If you ffeel that your
y
syste
em is fastter, sorry
y to
disa
appoint you, it's ju
ust a placebo effecct.
The
ere is one
e product,, and one product only, that will imp
prove you
ur hard drrive
perrformance
e by 300 to
t 400% of factory
y average
es and up
p to 600%
% of whatt most use
ers’
harrd drives c
can degra
ade to if left unma
aintained.
Tha
at productt is UltimateDefrag
g and we''re going to explain the scie
ence behind it for
you
u.
“Pa
areto's L
Law - Th
he 80/20
0 Rule - As It Ap
pplies To
o Your H
Hard Drive....”
Pareto's Law
w is a natu
ural law that
t
we se
ee everyw
where in our
o unive
erse. It is also known
as the
t
80/20
0 rule. Yo
ou've mos
st likely h eard of itt expresse
ed in diffe
erent way
ys. e.g. 20%
of the
t
popula
ation own
ns 80% of the wea
alth. 80%
% of a com
mpany's p
profits com
me from
20%
% of its customers
s... and so
o on.
Harrd drive fiile use is also desc
cribed by Pareto's Law and that is 80
0% of the
e time, yo
ou
only
y use 20%
% of yourr files. It's
s probablly even more
m
skew
wed than that 95%
% of the
time; you us
se only 5%
% of all the files o
on your ha
ard drive.. i.e. you are accessing most
of the
t
same files overr and ove
er again.
This
s is the m
main princ
cipal behind Ultima
ateDefrag
g. It applies a Pare
eto Analys
sis to you
ur
very
y own file
e system,, calculate
es which files you use mostt frequenttly and which
w
files
s
you
u use leas
st frequen
ntly. It then uses tthis inform
mation to leverage
e the 2 main
con
ntributors of reduce
ed hard drive
d
perfformance.
It segregates your file
es on you
ur hard drrive so th
hat your most
m
freq uently us
sed files are
a
con
nfined tog
gether on the faste
est part off your hard drive and
a
your least freq
quently used
files
s are mov
ved to the
e slower parts of y
your hard drive the
ereby furtther facilitating the
form
mer.
Let''s now ela
aborate on
o those 2 main ha
ard drive slowing principles
p
s discusse
ed previou
usly
so you
y
can s
see how itt all ties in.
“Ce
ertain Areas Of My Hard
d Drive Are Fastter Than
n Otherss. Oh rea
ally?
You
ur hard drrive consists of circ
cular plattters that rotate att tremend
dous spee
eds. When
na
circ
cular obje
ect is rotating the angular
a
v
velocity att the outs
side of the
e rotating
g circle is
much greate
er than th
he angular velocity
y at the in
nside.
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This
s phenom
menon of angular velocity
v
m
means tha
at data that is physsically on the
outermost platters ha
as a highe
er read an
nd transffer rate th
han data tthat existts on the
inne
ermost pllatters.
The
e data transfer rate
e is aboutt doubled
d for files that are on the ou
utermost track
com
mpared with the innermost track!
Wo
ouldn't itt make se
ense to put the ffiles you
u use the
e most on
n the fas
ster
outtermost tracks of
o your ha
ard drive
e?
It makes
m
perrfect sens
se doesn't it?
This
s way, alll the data
a that you
u are acce
essing mo
ost of the
e time is b
being read about
50%
% faster tthan it otherwise would.
w
Tha
at preciou
us area off faster pe
erformancce certain
nly needs
s not be o
occupied by
b files yo
ou
rare
ely use.
This
s is where
e the valu
ue of the Pareto La
aw comes
s into play. Ultima teDefrag determin
nes
you
ur most frrequently used file
es (or you
u can also
o choose specific
s
fa
avourites)) that pla
aces
them on those faster performing outer tracks off your harrd drive p
platters.
This
s clever m
manipulattion of your file po
ositions gives you far
f more performa
ance
imp
provemen
nt than the defragm
menting o
of a fragm
mented fille.
So that's one
e step we
e have ac
chieved. W
We have improved
i
the averrage file transfer
t
perrformance
e by an av
verage off 50% and
d up to 100%.
Nex
xt comes the speeding up of
o the slow
west partt of hard drive
d
perfformance
e - SEEK
TIM
MES!
“Minimizing Seek Times
T
- The Ne xt Key”
See
ek Time (more spe
ecifically Access
A
Tim
me) is the
e time it takes you
ur hard drive
read/write heads to lo
ocate a file, move into posiition and read the file, this is the
slow
west aspe
ect of you
ur hard drrive. Whille it does happen incredibly
i
y fast in time frames,
10 to 20 milliseconds
s can be a long tim
me in computer tim
me quanta
a.
The
e more sc
cattered your
y
files are aroun
nd your hard
h
drive
e, the long
ger these
e seek tim
mes
take
e. If a ha
ard drive read/writ
r
e head ha
as to mov
ve all ove
er your drrive to loc
cate and
read a series
s of files e.g.
e
at bo
oot up wh
hen thous
sands of files
f
are re
read, thou
usands off
files
s X 10 to 20 millisecond rea
ads = a lo
ong time..
This
s is the sa
ame phen
nomenon when rea
ading a frragmente
ed file. Yo
our hard drive
d
head
ds
nee
ed to mov
ve all arou
und the disk
d
to loccate and read
r
all th
he piecess of the fille.
To optimize
e perform
mance, one
o
shou
uld aim to
t keep all
a freque
ently rea
ad files
close togetther so th
hat the hard
h
driv
ve heads
s do not need to move long
distances b
between files to read file
es. This is
s known
n as seek
k confine
ement. You
Y
mig
ght have
e heard of
o short-stroking
g your dr
rive. This
s is the s
same efffect.
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A well-execu
w
uted file placement
p
t routine will place
e all frequ
uently acccessed file
es within 1
to 2 milliseco
ond distances instead of 10
0 to 20 millisecond
m
d distance
es.
You
u will improve acce
ess times by a facttor of 3 (s
since acce
ess timess include a conceptt
kno
own as lattency - th
he averag
ge time it takes a drive
d
plattter to rottate 1/2 turn
t
gen
nerally aro
ound 4.9 Ms) and seek time
es by a fa
actor of 10.
1
By maximizing seek confineme
c
ent i.e. ho
ow close together your datta is, we'v
ve given
ourrselves 30
00% bette
er averag
ge file acccess perfo
ormance.
Nex
xt - piecin
ng it all to
ogether fo
or the com
mpound effect.
e
“W
Why Addrressing File Frag
gmentattion Only
y Gives About 1
10% Perrformanc
ce
Inc
crease”
Deffragmenta
ation, and
d reduced
d file read
d perform
mance, is only
o
impo
ortant wh
hen you are
accessing the fragme
ented files
s. The am
mount of decreased
d
d perform
mance is proportion
p
nal
t
numb
ber of frag
gments, the size o f the file and the average
a
ffragment size.
to the
Let''s say you
u defrag regularly
r
using the
e default Windows
s defrag, m
most of the time you
y
will only hav
ve a very moderate
e numberr of fragm
mented files. Let's pick a rea
alistic
num
mber of 150 fragm
mented file
es.
Outt of the th
housands of files you
y
mightt access on
o a day-to-day ba
asis 150 fragmente
f
ed
files
s is "negligible" relatively speaking tthe perce
eived and actual pe
erformanc
ce loss is
also
o negligib
ble.
Surre, you ca
an defrag using any defrag utility you like - but at besst, you'll see
s
a 0 to
o
10%
% perform
mance inc
crease. Yo
ou won't even perceive any
y perform
mance incrrease.
At the
t
end o
of the day
y, your en
ntire file ssystem an
nd drive is
s not optiimized, so you can
n
defrag until you are blue
b
in the face.... you won't see mu
uch impro
ovement in
i
e.
perrformance
Is this
t
the th
hing you expected
e
to hear ffrom a co
ompany who
w
make
es a defragmenter?
?
Aga
ain, it's no
ot so muc
ch about the fragm
mented filles but more abou t the ove
erall file
plac
cement of all the files
f
on yo
our drive..
Only UltimatteDefrag lets you optimize
o
y
h
drive
e
your overrall file placement for raw hard
file access performan
nce up to 600% be
etter than what you may be
e experien
ncing.
“Piecing Itt All Together.....”
The
e ideal defragmenttation pro
ogram wil l leave yo
our hard drive as ffollows:
1. Your
Y
mostt frequen
ntly accessed files moved to
o the faste
est part o
of your ha
ard drive,,
com
mpacted a
and confin
ned
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2. Your
Y
leastt frequently used files
f
move
ed completely out of the wa
ay to the slowest
perrforming a
areas of your
y
hard drive
3. Defragme
D
ent all you
ur fragme
ented filess
When you do
o this you
u are addressing A
ALL the ca
auses of reduced
r
h
hard drive
e
e. You are
e defragging and o
optimizing
g the entire file sysstem as a whole.
perrformance
The
e end resu
ult is actu
ually grea
ater than the sum of the parts. If we
e improve
e access
times by 200
0% (a fac
ctor of 3), transferr rates by
y 50% and also incclude the 10%
con
ntributed by defrag
gmenting fragmentted files, the net result
r
is ccalculated
d as follow
ws:
3 X 1.5 X 1.1 = 495%
%
Tha
at number is the th
heoretical raw hard
d drive re
ead performance in
ncrease (and
(
it's
real) you'll g
get by deffragging and
a
optim
mizing witth, and on
nly with, UltimateD
Defrag.
So again... fforget abo
out every
ything you
u have prreviously learned a
about
defragmenta
ation. It's
s about more than just defragging.
Only UltimatteDefrag will give you
y
the o
objectively
y best ap
pproach to
o defragg
ging and that
t
includes file defragme
entation along
a
wit h file plac
cement optimizatio
on.
UltimateDefrrag is only $29.95. A very ffair price for the premier de
efragmen
ntation
softtware on the mark
ket.
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