Does it simulate the disappointment when it doesn’t make your PC any faster?
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Back in pre-95 days where it was all DOS based, that thing really would make your system a bit peppier. Granted my hard drive was 540mb back then (which was gigantic thank you very much), so we may have evolved a tad. Boy I love tech-back-in-my-day.
Next whipper snapper, let me tell you about the AOL...
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Sitting through this in hopes my programs would load 5 seconds faster.
@oddlysatisfying
Holy crap, the whole OS GUI works, too! You can move the window around, open the Start menu, etc.
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Back in the 5400rpm days, defrag could really make a difference, especially with sequential reads. One of the biggest factors was your cluster size vs your average file size. If you had 4K clusters (common at the time), but a lot of files that were slightly larger, it would speed things up as the disk heads didn’t have to jump around as much.
Bonus was just being able to watch it sort.
Ooohhh, this tickles the 'Tism
Funny thing: I almost never did this (or just didn't have to) back in the day. As such, I don't have nostalgia for it.🫤
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