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Why You Don't Need to Defragment Your Hard Drive

Defragmenting your hard drive is often presented as a way of speeding up your computer – mostly, it is a good way to quickly wear out your hard drive, waste a lot of time and risk data loss. In general, you do not need to defragment your hard drive. Even if files are fragmented, it […]

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A Faster Way to Defragment Your Hard Drive

File fragmentation is, pretty much, a fact of life. You can run utilities like Windows Disk Defragmenter or Piriform‘s Defraggler (which lets you defrag just a single file instead of the whole disk), but they are slow – even if left running overnight, they often don’t finish on heavily fragmented drives (at least on my […]