How to increase performance with SA:MP

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Can I ask a question? About the defragment part, I'd like to do that if it helps the computer, but I've read on a few sites where they say defragment damages ur computer after a while, because defragmenting leaves some empty "spots" or something.. if u know what im talkin about.

Is that true? I dont really know much about defragmenting stuff so  yea

Actually hard drives are like any other kind of dive, like a CD for instance, it has an image that holds data, after a while those images slowly get mangled and out of order. A hard drive defrag well.. does what it's name it, defragments those images and makes them all one section, allowing your hard drive to access it faster. With auslogics it also has the optimize feature, allowing it to organize your hard drive and make everything run better. You can prolly' find a more detailed example somewhere on this internet, but this is the dumbed down version of what it does.


Can it damage your hard drive? Well modern hard drives such as pretty much anything Sata will handle if fine, constantly 'defragging' a hard drive can cause damage to the actual disk, but yeah a defrag once every week or two will not harm anything, it will be fine.

[Edit] Most defrag tools, I think auslogics has it, you can set up a scheduled defrag for "one a week, month at this time" blah blah, pretty useful if you're someone who likes to keep things organized.

[Edit #2 (haha I'm reading shiz)]

Although this all happens quickly, it makes a lot of work for your hard disk. Its read/write head, which moves across the drive platter from location to location transferring data, has to zip all over the place when saving or opening a single highly fragmented file. (By the way, many disks have more than one read/write head and multiple platters.) If a file is unfragmented, the disk head moves to one location, reads the file in one sequential swoop, and that's it.

A file stored in, say, four fragments, can easily take twice as long to open as the same file unfragmented, although the actual performance hit you take is affected by other factors, including the total size of the file.

Pretty much saying not defragging can cause issues with your hard disk.