Defragging your LifeDrive: The results

Earlier today I posted about an article I had read over at Brighthand showing how to defragment your LifeDrive to hopefully speed up drive reads.

When I left you the LifeDrive was still defragmenting, so after a couple of hours of defragging here are the results...

First a bit about my LifeDrive and the state of the drive:

Volume LIFEDRIVE
Volume size 3.73 GB
Cluster size 16 KB
Used space 3.13 GB
Free space 607 MB
Percent free space 15 %

Before:

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation 15 %
File fragmentation 32 %
Free space fragmentation 7 %

After:

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation 1 %
File fragmentation 0 %
Free space fragmentation 2 %

So as you can see I had a decent amount of file fragmentation to start and by the looks of it, it's now gone. But what does this mean?, afterall, this reduced drive fragmentation is moot if the user cannot notice the benefit.

And can I? Sort of... well it's hard to tell. I did a few tests, searching for all the music on my LifeDrive ( about 15 albums ) using Pocket Tunes and searching trhough about 500MB of documents in DocsToGo. The process of searching and opening files did appear to be quicker but I can't be sure as I didn't take any sort of qualitive measurements before hand.

So should you do it, I don't know if it's worth it but if you're LifeDrive's sitting idle for a few hours, why not give your drive a spring clean and tidy up.