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Mac disk fragmentation
Mac disk fragmentation










mac disk fragmentation

You might wonder why Windows goes through so much hassle whenever you open a file and why it doesn’t just put the files as whole blocks. File fragmentation occurs when clusters of free disk space get reused over and over again when you delete old files and save new ones. Windows knows exactly where each fragment is and which is the right order for reading them – that’s how you get your file as a whole. But Windows thinks differently – to Windows a file is lots of small fragments that are kept in clusters on a hard drive.

mac disk fragmentation

We would never-ever think of a file as of tiny little bits of information scattered all over the drive.

mac disk fragmentation

To us, human beings, a file is something whole – a photo, a document, a song, or any other file. Defragmenting your hard drives will also help you speed up computer performance. In this article we are going to explain why it’s really important to defragment your hard drive and how often you should defrag to keep your files in order and not to damage your hard drive at the same time. However, computer experts wouldn’t persist telling you that it needs to be done if it wasn’t so. Defrags can be a pain in the neck! You have to find a time when your computer is on, but you aren’t using it sometimes you have to free up disk space to be able to defragment, which means you need to save files to a removable drive.












Mac disk fragmentation