This article will illustrate you the meaning of disk defragmentation and the reasons for the appearance of disk fragments.
This process mentioned above is called disk defragmentation.
It can improve the overall performance and the running speed of a computer.
Thus the files can not be saved to continuous sectors.
Then massive fragments will be found in the system.
File fragmentation does no damage to the system, but it will reduce the disk performance.
Whats more, it will even shorten the disks service life.
Ways to Manage
1.
Using disk defragment program in Windows 7.
Relying on some disk defragment tools.
Home users can choose fast optimization (once every half a year).
Setting of Files Gap
We recommend that users should not keep file gap.
If we reserve the setting, a large number of fragments will be produced.
Move Catalogue Close to MFT
This move will greatly fasten the file reading speed.
Related Common Sense
Disk defragmentation should be run in the following situations.
There are many records in the inode.
And each record is used to store the information, including permission, modificated date, name, etc.
The actual content of a file may be scattered in different locations in the block.
The position information is recorded in a record of the inode.
Block area is a serial of fixed block.
And it is responsible for the actual content of the document.
Inode functions like index, and the block is data area.
For Windows, saving file continuously is good to improve the efficiency of reading.
