The graphs below represent a performance comparison
between a badly fragmented disk and the same disk optimized.
It appears that unfragmenting and optimizing the disk improves
performance by about 10 percent. Test were performed on a
Performa 6300. Testing was done using MacBench
3.0. MacBench profiles popular software programs such
as Adobe Photoshop, Word 6.0 and QuarkXpress among a variety
of others and applies these profiles to the various subsystems
being tested. See this description
of what MacBench tests and how. Longer bars equals faster
performance.
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