Auto Defrag - Defragmentation

 

WHAT?

Defragmentation is a term used to describe the process of reorganizing a hard drive's data to help increase the proficiency of accessing the data because they are stored next to each other, and prevent file fragmentation.  Fragmentation is caused when information is deleted from a hard drive and small gaps are left behind to be filled by new data. As new data is saved to the computer, it is placed in these gaps. If the file is bigger than the gap, it will divide in several empty gaps. Consequently, they´re scattered. 





WHY?

By organizing the data on the hard drive, it can decrease the time it takes to run a program and open files on a hard disk drive. If it´s not defragmentated and you want to access the data, you must find all fragments of a file before it can be opened or executed.


WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DO NOT DEFRAGMENT IN WINDOWS? 

File defragmentation occurs only in Windows because the rest of the systems don´t cut the files. 

If you don´t defrag your computer may start running slowly and if a hard drive is too fragmented, your computer may freeze up or not start at all.

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