Improving PC Performance - Defragmentation

In my class on Improving PC Performance, after security settings are checked and old software and files are cleaned up, I recommend a defragmentation of the hard disk drive.

Unknown to many PC users,

hard disk drives don't erase data when files or software are deleted, they simply make the space available for new files to be written. Since the hard drive is an electro-mechanical device, to move data from the disk to memory requires that the drive "head" be located where the data is on the disk drive. This requires time, time for the disk to rotate, and time for the "head" to move into the right position to read or write data for the application.

After installing and removing programs, a disk drive can develop what is called defragmentation, which means files for applications (including files for the application and it's data files) can get scattered on the disk drive. Defragmentation solves this problem by re-organizing the files for faster disk read/write time.

Microsoft has a built-in defragmentation utility which is good, but I recommend that people buy Diskeeper's product. It is faster, more efficient, and will run in the background when no other applications need the CPU, stopping itself when other applications are in use. Defragmentation alone will improve the performance of a badly fragmented hard drive, Diskeeper is about as easy as it gets.

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Comments

[westend]

This is a great defragger, I'm using it now and its neat. Especially on huge chunks of data its not worth spending time running manual defrags which dont complete efficiently most of the times. Atleast for those who feel time is money, automating it is a better option. There are no hangs or restarts and i dont need to summon tech help every time i run a defrag.