MP3s high priotaire during defrag

Every defragger is placing all my music files on the outer sectors of the harddrive. Wouldn't it be better to leave them on the inner sectors, and place boot and system files on the outer ?

I'm using UltimateDefrag. I have an option to "exclude" my musics folder, will that solve my problem ?

 

is it really matter as long as the defrag achieves the main goal, that is to get file access faster and optimizing disk performance?

but then u do have the option to "exclude", try it (both - excl and incl) and see

cheers ...

 

What exactly is your problem? Do your mp3's not play properly? Basically, the outside sectors of the disk have a higher rotational speed, therefore you have a faster data transfer rate on the outer sectors, at the expense of seek time (which you don't really use with an mp3... you play the file from beginning to end). Inner sectors have slower transfer rates in total, but faster seek, which is why you want large, constantly and randomly accessed files (like your pagefile and large game files) there. The defragger is doing it's job and knows better what to do than you do, in general

 

How fast do you need your mp3's to play anyway? I don't know about you, but I usually listen to mine at regular 1x speed. I suppose the location on the disk might make a difference if you listen to yours at 15x....

 

LOL No I think the OP wants to boot faster, so that's why he/she wants the boot files on the outer part of the disk. I don't think he/she cares where the mp3s are.

Anyway, I doubt if the defrag programs pay attention to that. But if you want to move your boot files to the beginning of the disk, there's some program that supposedly does that. If this is Vista, it's in the Vista tweaks sticky. So you can just run that after the defrag.

 

The operative word there is "supposedly".

Gary