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2. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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   Defragmentation is advantageous and relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over different areas of the disk when accessing fragmented files is slower, compared to accessing the entire contents of a non-fragmented ...

3. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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   Defragment Hard Drive (if applicable): If you're using a traditional hard drive (HDD), defragmenting it can help improve file access times and overall system performance.

4. Here’s what it means to optimize your computer — and why you ...

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   Here are a few ways to free up disk space on your hard drive. Uninstall any apps you don't use: If you're on a PC, look for a list of your apps in the Start menu. Then right click on the apps you ...

5. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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   It can also defragment multiple volumes simultaneously. According to Scott Hanselman of Microsoft, Windows 7 [verification needed] and later do defragment a solid-state disk (SSD) but in a completely different way. There is less incentive for defragmentation of SSDs because file fragmentation has less performance impact on them and they handle ...

6. File system fragmentation - Wikipedia

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   Solid-state drives do not physically seek, so their non-sequential data access is hundreds of times faster than moving drives, making fragmentation less of an issue. It is recommended to not manually defragment solid-state storage, because this can prematurely wear drives via unnecessary write–erase operations.

7. Fragmentation (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In computer storage, fragmentation is a phenomenon in which storage space, such as computer memory or a hard drive, is used inefficiently, reducing capacity or performance and often both. The exact consequences of fragmentation depend on the specific system of storage allocation in use and the particular form of fragmentation.

8. Trim (computing) - Wikipedia

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   The table below identifies each notable operating system and the first version supporting the command. Additionally, older solid-state drives designed before the addition of the TRIM command to the ATA standard will need firmware updates, otherwise the new command will be ignored. However, not every drive can be upgraded to support trimming.

9. Solid-state storage - Wikipedia

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   A solid-state drive (SSD) provides secondary storage for relatively complex systems including personal computers, embedded systems, portable devices, large servers and network-attached storage (NAS). To satisfy such a wide range of uses, SSDs are produced with various features, capacities, interfaces and physical sizes and layouts. [4]