say you have 2 drives stripped. piece 0 & 2 of a file will go on drive 0 and piece 1 & 3 will go on drive 1. pieces 0 & 2 on drive still need to be side by side for max performance and 1 & 3 also need ...

I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files. It's kind of a pain in the ass that ...

If it were up to me, I’d never defragment my PC’s drives. I’m one of those people who prefers to have Windows’ maintenance operations done in the background, without my direct intervention. So it ...

Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

Defragmenting your HP laptop is an useful computer maintenance task that restores scattered and disorganized files to improve performance. An HP laptop's hard disk becomes fragmented when you delete, ...

Defragging is one of those universally recommended system performance tweaks, but it should not be counted on excessively. It will not speed up a hard drive that is already slow, and it's not worth ...

Sisinternals' Contig.exe defragmentation engine is used to make powerful and fast defragmentation possible without awesome free software. Since Sysinternals is currently being bought by Microsoft, it ...

In the long list of odious chores, defragmenting your hard drive is right up there with flossing your teeth and washing your dog–or flossing your dog’s teeth, for that matter. There is little ...