defrager alternatives.
Does anyone have suggestions for a defrager other than the native windows offering?
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2oldman wrote:
I have never understood why defragging is ever necessary.
Reading from and writing to a rotating disk drive is about the slowest activity the computer will do. As you write to the disk it may not write the file in contiguous sectors but may have to scatter it all over the place. Thus when you re read the file the disk arm has to move about which in relative terms can be quite slow. The defraging attemps to put all the pieces of a single file back together to reduce the time it takes to acces the file.
Depending on how much memory your computer has the more disk activity will occur just to load and run programs. So for this reason it's good to have plenty of free disk space. (And as much memory as you can)
Most users will not notice the delays, but some users just want it to be as fast as it can be.
