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OCR: STORAG TEC HNOLOGIE -9g InfoWeb you use random access storage files tend to become fragmented that is, each file is stored many noncontiguous clusters. Drive performance generally declines as the works harder to locate the clusters that cont ain the parts of file regain peak perfor- mance you can use defragmentation utility rearrange the files or disk s0 that they Storage are stored IP contiguous clusters Study Figure 29 which explains more about fragmen- Basics tation and defragmentation Figure 4-29 Defragmenting dist 15 10 1510 Fragmented disk Defragmented disk On this fragmented disk the pumle vel- When the disk S defragmented the clus De fragm entation low and blue fles are stored in uou ters of data for each file are move d to and Disk contiguous dusters Accessing the contiquous duste ...