I remember using Norton Speed disk. It was super slow but you could watch a diagram of many small colored blocks get rearranged. When done the data on your disk was laid out in neat contiguous blocks. This helped speed up access so the physical disk reading heads weren’t jumping back and forth.
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u/plexan 7d ago
I remember using Norton Speed disk. It was super slow but you could watch a diagram of many small colored blocks get rearranged. When done the data on your disk was laid out in neat contiguous blocks. This helped speed up access so the physical disk reading heads weren’t jumping back and forth.