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 ...

Why Your Drive Needs Defrag/Trim Traditional hard drives (HDD) use spinning platters to store data in sequential "blocks" across each platter. If you delete some data, the drive will go back and fill ...

How often should you defrag a drive? I know you are suppose to after you move, use, change, or add a large number of files, but at what point does defragging a drive cause more wear and tear than it's ...

Q: I just got a new ultralight notebook for when I travel. It has one of those super-fast solid-state drives. My maintenance program for my regular hard-drive computers in the office includes ...

It is quite possible to make a scenario where fragmentation is inevitable.<BR>For example, take a 40GB drive. Consider it 0% fragmented with 10GB of free space near the end.<BR>Now delete 10GB from ...