Large files and performance

[Guest]

Does having allot of large files (movies 600MB+) affect HD performance?
I have at least 20 movie files of 600MB or more on my DELL 8400 and the
performance has been degrading lately.

Applying what I know about clustering and fragmentation, I am only assuming
that data access my always skip over these larger consecutive clusters.

My drive is formatted in NTFS and I have 512 MB of RAM with a P4 3.0
Hyper-threading.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

In a word: No. The movies do not increase the fragmentation of your hard
disk (so long as you're not editing them); they're more likely to be stored
in one continuous block.

 

[Ron Martell]

Does having allot of large files (movies 600MB+) affect HD performance?
I have at least 20 movie files of 600MB or more on my DELL 8400 and the
performance has been degrading lately.

Applying what I know about clustering and fragmentation, I am only assuming
that data access my always skip over these larger consecutive clusters.

My drive is formatted in NTFS and I have 512 MB of RAM with a P4 3.0
Hyper-threading.

As your hard drive gets filled up the drive head mechanism will be
traversing longer distances as it moves between the various items on
the drive. Longer distances mean increased time and to that extent
performance will be affected. But this is a function of the total
amount of data on the drive not the size of the individual files.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[cadmium]

As your hard drive gets filled up the drive head mechanism
will be
traversing longer distances as it moves between the various
items on
the drive. Longer distances mean increased time and to that
extent
performance will be affected. But this is a function of the
total
amount of data on the drive not the size of the individual
files.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

It would anyways be a gud idea to defragment regularly or keep the
fragmentation levels under check.