While it’s true that uninterrupted file access is important no matter the work being done, it’s especially important when it comes to music editing. A large part of the creative process that goes into ...

Given the title of this article some might think, “Oh, yeah, file fragmentation. Been there, done that, got that all covered.” But with the ever-changing state of computing environments today, it is ...

Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

I tried doing a search, but that was waste of time. Just basic "should I defrag" and "when should I defrag" questions. Situation; Larger video files (500mb to 2GB) in a non O/S partition that were ...

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes. Help desk systems aren’t the only way to reduce the support workload. Staff ...

In today's fast-paced environment, the chances are good that you're constantly multitasking. As you read this article, you could be responding to emails, working on a Word document, updating an Excel ...

Maximum privacy seems to be the goal for the new enterprise authentication and cloud storage services Bundesdruckerei is showing at Cebit this week. The 250-year-old state printer has moved far beyond ...

This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). With smarter file systems and faster disks and PCs, file ...

I have just come up on an interesting case on a client's server. The machine is primarily an email server, and therefore has a substantial partition for the mail spool files. This partition is < 10% ...