![]() ![]() I've seen many Mac users claim that Macs don't suffer from fragmentation. And they suffer the same performance degradation caused by hard drive fragmentation. Macs use the same hardware Windows PC use. MyDefrag (was JkDefrag), Defraggler, Auslogic's Defrag, Contig, and Power Defragmenter (a GUI for Contig) are all free defragmentation tools, for Windows. Well, that's how it works in Windows at least. These re-arrange files to put things back together. That's why there are defragging applications. Having one, contiguous block for each file helps the hard drive load the file quicker. So having split-second delays over and over added for every single file access can cause noticeably longer system startup and program launching. It doesn't take too long for the drive to do that with a single file, but your system is usually trying to access dozens or hundreds of files at the same time. ![]() Instead of just simply loading your files, your hard drive has to search all over the physical drive surface for the pieces of the file. On a mechanical hard drive, having fragmented files slows things down. They end up in pieces, and new files end up getting broken up as they are written to the free spots between the pieces of the older files. ![]() ![]() This in inevitable.įiles get written and re-written, added to and moved. Because of how disk storage works, fragmentation happens. ![]()
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