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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11459)11/12/2000 9:56:26 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
Also, separate question, can you tell me what is the benefit of defragging, what is defragging, and how often would you recommend defragging?

One way to think about defragging is to compare it with how mail carrier routes are set up. For example a mail carrier delivers mail to consecutive locations on a street. But what if a mail carrier had to deliver mail to locations scattered throughout a city. In this case his route would be fragmented. Whereas when a carrier delivers mail to consecutive location his route is defragmented. Similar with a hard disk for best performance all of the data in a file should be stored in consecutive locations on a hard disk instead of scattered throughout a hard disk

Deleting and adding files to a hard disk causes a hard disk to become fragmented. Therefore, how often you delete and add files to your hard disk determines how often you may want to defrag your hard disk. A user who rarely deletes files may want to defrag his hard disk once a year. Whereas a user who is constantly deleting and adding files and has some unusual performance requirements may want to defrag his hard disk once a week. However, because hard disks are so much faster now defragging a hard disk is not as important as it once was. Most users will not notice any difference in performance between a fragmented and a defragmented disk.
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