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Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics
Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks.
Why Defragment Disks?
Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer.
CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore
fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.
Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the disk drive heads move too much when reading files
which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes.
It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.
Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk
fragmentation. It is optimized to work with today s modern hard disks. Auslogics Disk Defrag is
extremely simple to use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the other
disk defragmentation software. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive
hardware investments. And, what s most important, it s absolutely free.
Defragmentation Explained
Fragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and
downloading files from the Internet.
Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they re
saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the
subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume.
When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store
new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs.
The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer s file input and output performance will
be.
Defragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on
a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks
can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system
performance.
In June 1999 the ABR Corporation of Irvine, California, performed a fragmentation analysis and found
that, out of 100 corporate offices that were not using a defragmenter, 50 percent of the respondents
had server files with 2,000 to 10,000 fragments. In all cases the results were the same: Servers and
workstations experienced a significant degradation in performance.
The following minimal configuration is recommended to run this product.
Windows 7/Vista/2008/XP/2000/2003 32-bit and 64-bit supported
64 Mb of RAM
10 Mb of available disk space
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