Why Your Drive Needs Defrag/Trim Traditional hard drives (HDD) use spinning platters to store data in sequential "blocks" across each platter. If you delete some data, the drive will go back and fill ...

Q: I just got a new ultralight notebook for when I travel. It has one of those super-fast solid-state drives. My maintenance program for my regular hard-drive computers in the office includes ...

How often should you defrag a drive? I know you are suppose to after you move, use, change, or add a large number of files, but at what point does defragging a drive cause more wear and tear than it's ...

It is quite possible to make a scenario where fragmentation is inevitable.<BR>For example, take a 40GB drive. Consider it 0% fragmented with 10GB of free space near the end.<BR>Now delete 10GB from ...