"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

Q. I know I’m suppose to defrag my hard drive every now and then so it runs more efficiently. But every time I start a defrag, the function runs for a few minutes, stops and then starts all over again ...

Rasha1997 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if he should use Windows’ own defragging tool, a third-party defragger, or just not bother. The short answer: Defragging isn’t vital anymore, ...

A COMPUTER is basically lazy and stores data where there is least resistance. Hence, eventually, it slows down as file fragments are strewn all over its memory field. When this happens, it’s time to ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...

Remember the old days, when we would write or type on paper? We would start at the top of the sheet, and keep writing until we were done. We could then take that five-page book report and neatly file ...

Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...