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- │ H A R D D I S K F R A G M E N T A T I O N │
- │ what it is, how to spot it and how to remedy it. │
- │ by Mark Findlay Sysop, Home Dba (202) 488-4709 │
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- While hard disks are no longer considered "luxury" items, they
- still represent a significant investment to your system both in
- terms of money and the value of the data they hold. Hard drives
- have normal life expectancies of several years, yet one should
- still make every effort to extend that life whenever possible.
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- │ One of the effects of regular hard disk usage is fragmentation. │
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- Fragmentation not only slows the performance of your drive, but also
- ages your drive by requiring it to work harder to store and retrieve
- its data. Let's look first at how fragmentation occurs, and then how
- you can keep fragmentation to a minimum...
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