Even with today's hard drives packing storage by the tens of gigabytes, performance can become anemic from the fragmentation of applications, system files and data over time. Defragmenting disks — and ...

I'm running WinXP and after a few weeks of downloading (lots of stuff), moving large files around and between drives, and installing games and software I noticed a very significant drop in performance ...

Storage Area Networks or SANs are designed to excel at optimizing access however data performance can still suffer due to file fragmentation in the OS environment and SANs may be “unaware” of such ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...