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Disk defragmentation -- how beneficial is it really?

26 Sep 2006 | Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor

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For years, administrators have been hearing stories about whether or not they need to defrag their hard drives. How big of a problem is fragmentation really? How beneficial is disk defragmentation? Desktop management expert Serdar Yegulalp explodes some myths and defies some conventional wisdom about disk defragmentation in the tips below.

Disk Defragmentation Fast Guide

 Introduction
  Disk defragmentation: Performance-sapper or best practice?
 New hard disk drives reduce need for disk defragmentation
 Four steps to lessen the effect of fragmentation
 Flash memory drive defragmentation: Does it make sense?
 Three disk defragmentation issues defined


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