Defraging Why?

2008-05-18T16:33:00.000-07:00

Defrag or Not?

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes system failures.
Movie Making can frag up your hard drive.
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Why should you bother with the housework? A couple of reasons. First, disks are hard working, mechanical devices and, like all mechanical devices, prone to failure.
A little preventative maintenance can warn you of potential problems and fix minor glitches,
before they can do damage to your data.
Second, the way files are organised on your drive has a perceptible impact on the performance of your computer. If your files are stored neatly, end-to-end, without fragmentation, reading and writing to the disk is speedier.
Sometimes when you install a program or create a data file, the file ends up chopped up into chunks and stored in multiple locations on the disk. This is called fragmentation.
When Windows is writing a file to the disk, it looks for a suitable piece of free space in which to store it.

What happens, then, when you copy a 40M database or audio file to the disk and the biggest slice of free space is only 30M?
Windows writes the first part of the file in one section of the disk, and then scouts around for other places to store the rest of the file.
The end result is that a single file may be stored in several chunks scattered about the disk.

Other way to look at it.

Lets say you start reading a book. Evertime you stop reading you put some pages in the bedroom, then some pages get in other rooms,

pretty soon the pages of the book are all over the house.

What happens when someone tries to read the book?
It would take a long time, you would have to look for each page.
Well your hard drive dose the same thing.

When you defrag all the pages are put back together. So Defrag Often.

There are a lot of free Defragers.

Windows comes with a collection of house cleaning tools, including ScanDisk, Disk Defragmenter and Disk Cleanup, to help keep your disk in peak working order.
Use Windows Defrag tool, or download a free one. Such As:

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.14.3

http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html
Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments.

AND OR

JkDefrag v3.34

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.
Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.
There are some you can purchase to.
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