Defragmenting disks used to be a big thing back in the day. I certainly remember doing it every now and then on my PC back in the mid-2000s, and it felt like it really helped spedd up your PC. But ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Laptop hard drives are prone to the same defragmenting risks as desktop computers, except a few factors change in the severity of the risks. If you're using the ...

Plenty of people have defragmentation enabled as part of routine PC maintenance, and years ago, that was solid advice. When hard disk drives (HDDs) were standard, defragmentation could speed up your ...

Q. Ever since installing Norton AntiVirus on my Windows 98 computer, I cannot defragment my hard drive because the Disk Defragmenter program never finishes. What can I do? A. Defragmenting your ...

I'm using a 3-ware 7500-8 controller, with 6 WD 200Gb drives in a Raid 5 array (1Tb effective storage) does this need defragging from time to time - or because of the data spread in a raid 5 array is ...

I read generalsparky thread about defragmenters for Ext2 file systems... And thankfully, for what I read, they not need to be defragged. But I have three Windows (vfat) partitions mounted on my Linux ...

Throughout the years, a rumor has occasionally surfaced that a particular operating system or a certain file system–NTFS, for example–does not require defragmentation. Various reasons are given, but ...