What is this sh*t? I thought I'd do a super-defrag on one of my backup drives, so I formatted the drive and then ran my backup program to produce a nicely compacted drive with no fragments. The backup program copied the files one at a time, in alphabetical order by directory, subdirectory, and file, took most of the night to do it.
The result was a nicely compacted disk with 70% fragmentation! (see the attached photo.)
How is this even possible? Did my backup program choose sectors pseudo-randomly based on astrological signs or something?
WTF.
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Edited by tanstaafl. (28/04/2010 20:50)
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