Tips | Disk Fragmentation One Cause of Your Slow Computer

You have a computer today? How long the computer do you have? Similarly, living beings, computer equipment belonging to you too must also have a normal range of usage. Both software on it that can be expired, or its hardware can also be damaged. Of all the hardware on your computer is the hard disk.

At the time this article the author tries to share knowledge about 'Disk Fragmentation', especially if you are using the Windows operating system. Even if you are users of other operating systems, Linux for example? This article will help you, to find a solution its fragmentation of your hard drive.

Disk Fragmentation

In general, any file on a hard drive that is stored in it will be written on a block adjacent block. The more you use a hard drive to save disk then automatically block will be filled and of course the display will be fully charged capacity so that you are no longer able to use it when all blocks have been filled. Not only on the full block, but also about the activity on the disk itself in the form of the addition, modification or deletion of files will also have an effect on the hard disk itself. This is what led to fragmentation on the disk.

fragmentation is a condition which can not be avoided. Ie where each block files scattered on storage space, so when you make access to a computer file will need additional time to conduct a separate part of the

You can menganalogikannya it with the following cases. ABCD is the same files and occupy different blocks.

• As you can see in the first row when the file is still there alteration.
• Then the second row, so the file is deleted automatically block B will have a void between the blocks where the file A and the file block B.
• File E ditambhkan on the third line, but the difference is the file E has a smaller size. So it will automatically be left a little space from the files of type B previously. By the remote computer is still considered to be the distance between E file with the file C.
• And on line 4, you add a file F. Because the file is larger then the storage capacity is divided in the empty space between the file E and the C file, and subsequently placed on the file after the file D.

Short description like this was probably still could imagine, but it is not your own hard disk device also has no small amount of storage? Can not imagine if the storage is made up of thousands to millions of files scattered. Given this reality, so it necessary to defrag your computer hard drive? According to the author it is up to you what operating system users. Because it is the basis of all operating systems have different ways of doing the reading disk.

Reading of the Windows System

Starting from Windows 2000 and XP up to series terbaruya, Microsoft has been applying the newest technology system NTFS system. This system has several features among others:

• Transparent data compression
• Setting quota per partition
• As well as Alternate data streams

This technology is obviously more advanced than in the current version of Windows 98, which is still using the FAT storage media. NTFS is able to maximize the performance of the hard drive, with the use of an empty block around the block are filled. It is certainly different from the use of the FAT system, with the search for the nearest empty block of the first file in the storage space.
However, although this technology has many features, storage media on Windows defrag should also be done periodically. Given the fragmentation can still be found. You will find later, Microsoft has made the auto defrag when Windows is empty (system idle).

Linux System readings

Linux has a system devoted to the linux kernel, with the format of extended file system (ext). As it grows, you will find ext2, ext3, and ext4. there is a difference in the preparation of these three blocks, you can read more about the length of three on Wikipedia

Unlike the NTFS file system, ext distributing files to the entire hard drive, when activity data storage so that when you make changes to data, will be available a wide place for the development of such data. Meanwhile, when the system detects the presence of fragmentation, then slowly files will be moved automatically by the system to perform normalization. When using Linux, fragmentation may still be found when the capacity of your hard drive is nearly full.
Although in fact no need defrag, you can still perform a defrag on Linux. Only by doing a backup of the entire file and delete the partition. Then copy the backup file to another partition, then Linux will automatically perform better arrangement.

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Written By Unknown Date Of Thursday, 3 December 2015