John Hanley;518204 Wrote:
There is no hard rule regarding this, but it's good to keep it as low
as possible, without expending too much in the way of system resources
and time to achieve this.
If the files you use frequently are heavily fragmented, such as the
windows system files, pagingfileetc, then you will see slower bootup
times, slower disk performance and other common effects offragmentation.
If the files you never/rarely use are fragmented, then obviously you
wont notice much of a performance loss under normal usage conditions.
But do note that fragmented files (used or unused) can causefragmentationof free space and future files, leading to a
self-propagatingfragmentationproblem, hence the benefit in keepingfragmentationlow at any given time.
