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2. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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   On SCSI hard disk drives, the SCSI controller can directly control spin up and spin down of the drives. Some Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives support power-up in standby (PUIS): each drive does not spin up until the controller or system BIOS issues a specific command to do so. This allows the system to be set up to ...

3. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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   As early as the end of 1982, the IBM PC DOS operating system that shipped with early IBM Personal Computers included a Disk Volume Organization Optimizer to defragment the 5¼-inch floppy disks that those machines used. At this time, Microsoft's MS-DOS did not defragment hard disks. Several third party software developers marketed defragmenters ...

4. System Mechanic Software | 30-Day Free* Trial | AOL Products

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   Download System Mechanic to help repair and speed up your slow PC. ... Advanced System Mechanic PC optimization features. ... DeepCleanScan defragments your PC’s hard drive for faster ...

5. System Mechanic FAQs - AOL Help

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   System Mechanic is a performance solution that first deploys a series of complex automated maintenance actions to help keep your PC stable and clutter-free, and then goes to work by precision-tuning dozens of internet, processor, memory, and hard drive settings in real time for maximum system speed and performance.Some of the features include:

6. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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   A common strategy to optimize defragmentation and to reduce the impact of fragmentation is to partition the hard disk(s) in a way that separates partitions of the file system that experience many more reads than writes from the more volatile zones where files are created and deleted frequently. The directories that contain the users' profiles ...

7. Comparison of defragmentation software - Wikipedia

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   Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) Microsoft: Bundled with Microsoft Windows: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS Windows 2000 and later; Windows 95 and later Yes Yes Yes Yes, with Windows Task Scheduler: No No Same as Windows Diskeeper: Condusiv Technologies: Discontinued (formerly trialware: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS Windows XP and later Yes [5] Yes ...