Westlife excerpt, 'everybody's looking for that something, one thing that makes your computer fast...' just messing with you. Want to know the story of how defragmentation works? First you must know how a hard disk writes datas.
A look on the inside of the hard drive
If you look at the inside of the hard disk, there is a long and pointy end thingy called the actuator arm and the head, the round disk is called a platter. The hard disk writes data by magnetizing the parts on the platter through the the head of the actuator arm. The platter has to keep turning in order for the head to write datas on the whole disk with the actuator arm moving left and right. Long story short :
- Platter turns & actuator arm moves left and right to be able to cover the whole place
- Head writes the data onto platter by magnetizing it
When the hard disk does this, it fragments the disk. Take for example : when you saved your file, the hard drive writes the data onto the platter wherever there's space on it. It does that by splitting your data into bits and is written everywhere on the disk whereever there is space. When you want to retrieve your data, it has to go all over the disk just to piece the whole data together.
As it repeats this process on every data, the hard disk gets to messy to find, resulting in longer time to open your files. The way to undo this is to defragment it, meaning putting the files into one piece again so that it's easier to get the whole piece of the file without having to go through cycles. And here's the program, IObit Smart Defrag :
Advantages :
- Simple interface
- Defragments your computer much more effeciently than other products
- There is a auto-defrag that can be set-up
- It's free!!
Smart Defrag 1.30
Steps :
- Download from main website
- Install it
- Choose the drive you want to defragment and the type of defragmentation method ...& done!
I recommend using the 'fast optimize' than the other 2 options. It defragments files + places all your files all in the same area for easy access. You should also defragment your hard drive before it get's to fagmented. Try imagining your room being very messy. It'll take more time to clean up compared to when it is just a little bit dirty. So try weekly defragmenting.
From this information, you will know that comparing the speed of a computer you just bought with a computer full with your works is just not right. So whatever computer you are buying, always have a good defragmenter on the go. For more info on hard disks, go here.
Update(s) :
From this information, you will know that comparing the speed of a computer you just bought with a computer full with your works is just not right. So whatever computer you are buying, always have a good defragmenter on the go. For more info on hard disks, go here.
Update(s) :
- Comparison with other defragmenting products can be found here. I personally think IObit Smart Defrag is already the best defragmenter as I have already try it out myself.
