What is defragmentation and what is it for?

Modern users are often spoiled by powerful computers and inexpensive components to them to such an extent that they do not even know the basic concepts. And therefore, they often find themselves in a situation where the car begins to shamelessly “slow down” and with extreme reluctance to respond to any commands. As a rule, they are accused of “malicious viruses” that have penetrated the computer, but sometimes the reality is much more prosaic. For example, do you know what defragmentation is and why it is essential for your system? If not, we invite you to read this article.

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Problems begin when there are too many such fragments of a large file, and all of them are far scattered from each other. In this case, the load on the read heads of the disk is so powerful that the access time to some document is seriously slowed down.

And now we learn what defragmentation is: this is the name of the process when all the individual fragments of a file are again located nearby. Thus, not only a fraction of free space is freed up on the hard disk, but also its “mileage” is significantly increased due to the lower load on the reader.

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