Improving PC Performance with Defragmentation
November 25th, 2010 written by
David Taylor in Computers
Data fragmentation is an invisible threat that erodes the performance of your PC. Over time, it can slow your PC and shorten its lifespan. This can mean lost productivity and increase help desk/ admin costs with extended downtime or the premature replacement of hardware to solve the problem. If left unresolved, it may lead to potential loss of data such as irreplaceable photos, videos, music, files and financial records.
In order to completely understand what defragmentation means, let’s take a look at why it may be necessary in the first place. Defragmentation is needed when your file system becomes disjointed, which is essentially the term used to describe a file system that contains data that has been broken up into little pieces and stored in random areas. When you save a file to your hard-drive, your computer attempts to save it in one contiguous location. This is most likely scenario when your PC is relatively new and you don’t have a lot of data stored on it yet. As your system grows and more data is stored, the amount of available space begins to decline. When this happens, it becomes less likely that a new file you save to your hard-drive will be able to be saved in one location. Instead, itmay be broken up into pieces, and those pieces will be stored where possible. This is known as fragmentation.
Disk Booster is a comprehensive and effective disk defragmentation tool for delivering improved PC performance. The program works silently in the background to eliminate fragmentation on your PC. It restructures broken or fractured files into contiguous spaces to reduce read-write delay and seek times. This directly translates into faster PC start-up times, shorter delays in launching demanding applications and faster data storage and retrieval.
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