Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes. Help desk systems aren’t the only way to reduce the support workload. Staff ...

One of the truisms of NetWare is that the traditional storage system has no need of defragmentation. In a desktop operating system (such as DOS or Windows), file storage blocks become scattered around ...

Defragmentation actively harms SSDs. Flash memory cells can only handle a limited number of write cycles before they wear out. Each time you defragment, you're forcing the drive to rewrite massive ...

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Diskeeper Corp. this week disclosed that it has developed of its most significant technological breakthroughs, which it said will prevent up to 85% of all fragmentation from ever occurring in Windows ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

For the last couple months I’ve been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start running as slow as molasses. And I mean slow: ...

Occasionally, I run across information that everyone speaks as the truth, yet I can't get a reason why it is true anywhere. This drives me nuts!! I am going nuts now.<BR><BR>I am involved in several ...