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Comment : The Windows Defragmentation Feature Controversy

Author: Max Clarke| Date: 12 June 2008| Tags:  Hard Drives, Storage, Windows
Comment : The Windows Defragmentation Feature Controversy
Companies rely on an optimal system health to achieve their objective; because of today's larger files size, high capacity disks and dramatic rate of fragmenting files, one fundamental thing all Windows users need doing to insure high performance is to defrag their systems.

Defragmentation physically reorganizes the contents of the disk and stores the pieces of each file together to keep the systems optimized.

Not only is defragmentation itself necessary, the choice of defragmentation technology is also crucial.

Microsoft provides an in-built defragmenter. However, many IT administrators quickly realise that it cannot meet the requirements of demanding systems on a professional level.

For once, it is extremely time-consuming. The administrator needs to schedule the defragmentation process on each machine, one by one, when he could be servicing company employees or taking care of other essential system maintenance.

The process is awfully slow and extremely resource intensive. All other activities on the system have to be stopped. Therefore, defragmentation is often run at night or at week-ends, which inevitably leads to over-time costs.

 
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