Speed up the Hard Disk on your PC.
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Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks.
What is fragmentation?
Fragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading files from the Internet. Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they're saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume.
When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs. The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file input and output performance will be.
What is defragmentation?
Defragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system performance.
Why Defragment Disks?
Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.
Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.
License type: Freeware
Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista
File size: 1.5 MB
Developer: Auslogics Pty Ltd.
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1 comments: Responses to “ Speed up the Hard Disk on your PC. ”
By Unknown on October 8, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Fragmentation pulls down performance and increases chances of drive failure. Its only common sense that a badly fragmented drive is under extra strain and will not perform as fast as a unfragmented one. Its like comparing a healthy person with someone who has caught a disease. Its best to tackle this issue when its at its initial stages than spend hours on it when its reached its max.