It’s a well-known fact that file fragmentation seriously affects performance. The more files are broken up into fragments, the worse the performance, to the point that system reliability can be ...

Storage Area Networks or SANs are designed to excel at optimizing access however data performance can still suffer due to file fragmentation in the OS environment and SANs may be “unaware” of such ...

When it came about, scheduled defragmentation was a lifesaver. Prior to its development, defragmentation had to be performed manually, which meant a human had to stay late at night or come in over the ...

SINGAPORE--Enterprises in Asia are not defragmenting their systems because they do not understand enough about the technology, according to a senior executive at Diskeeper. John Lake, executive vice ...

A novel program utilizing an approach to defragment care for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) resulted in better patient outcomes. Objectives: Given the problematic fragmentation of care ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

I'm running WinXP and after a few weeks of downloading (lots of stuff), moving large files around and between drives, and installing games and software I noticed a very significant drop in performance ...

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 ...

Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

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 ...

Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Some things are good ideas from the start, and one of them is the Storage Area Network (SAN). It has great success potential, especially potential for delivering on ...