COMPUTER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS BY RELOCATION OF FILES ON DEVICES

摘要

The present invention can be used to improve the performance of a computer system. Monitoring software is introduced into computer system so that the monitoring software can identify or assist to identify files on a drive which place a substantial load on the computer system. Identification of files can be performed automatically by software, manually, or by data being sent to a web-site. By monitoring factors for a file such as seek times, read times, write times, etc. the monitoring software can build a list of information which contains data on each file on the drive accessed by the computer system's operating system. Files are then identified that may provide an improvement in system performance if these files were relocated to a faster or improved performance drive. Calculations or estimations may also be made to quantify the expected improvements should files (or a file) be moved to a faster drive. Files loading the computer system are moved to a faster drive. The files may be manually moved, or automatically moved by software provided to perform such a task.