On the other hand, Mac OS X includes no such defragging tools or general drive optimizations (no, Repair Disk is not the same thing). Newer versions of Windows have generally improved on file fragmentation, but many longtime users continue to perform a regular defrag even if it has turned into a hocus-pocus maintenance routine, and the defrag ability remains intact in the newest versions of Windows, renamed from “Disk Defragmenter” to now be labeled as a more generic “Optimize Drives” function. Fragmentation in Windows vs OS Xįragmentation is so common in the Windows world that the Windows operating system includes built-in defragmenting utilities, which has become a part of the typical maintenance scheme of most PC owners. The result is most often felt as decreased performance of the computer, and the resolution is a process called defragmentation, which basically just reorganizes the data so that related bits are grouped together. If you’re confused already, here’s some quick background disk fragmentation is the gradual inability of a file system to keep related data together, which results in increased hard drive activity as the drive has to seek out related data more often.
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