Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Spruce Up Your Hard Disk

Hard disk fragmentation can hinder PC performance. Therefore, do immediately the process of defragmentation. This process can make your hard disk to work as usual and was re-optimized PC.

Modern computers can finish your work faster. As time went on, now all the work orders were completed with a long time. Opening the application to be slow. Checking the folder indicated virus and copying files takes several minutes. This could be due to the hard disk is fragmented. Hard disk is fragmented, often make the performance of PC decreased. The solution, perform periodic defragmentation process. Basically,
the defragmentation process is to move or rearrange the placement of files on your hard disk. However, now through defragmentation application that was launched by a number of manufacturers, these applications can also analyze your hard disk and put according to the actual file location.

Problem: chaos files
Install and uninstall programs, save, edit, and delete a number of documents often leads to fragmented hard disk. This resulted in access to the hard disk read heads have hampered due to moving. Therefore, you must do the defragmentation process.
Frequency depending on usage and file system installed on your hard disk. How it works is different from FAT file system NTFS FAT file system will place the data in the order and did not care, whether it can be stored as a series of clusters or not. Meanwhile, NTFS looks more
smart. File system was first implemented in Windows XP is trying to save all the data at once. However, NTFS also has drawbacks. For example, the file system is not considering changes in data size. When users zoom in a PC data, the data is stored on your hard disk as the new data.

Fragmentation also can be caused by the MFT (Master File Table). NTFS file system will reserve 12% of available capacity on your hard disk for metadata. Not only that, Windows also saves the all the data size is less than 1.5 KB. If you often create small files, the MFT can be full and mix the following files with the file or program on the PC.

Decrease the speed can also be caused by the swap file (virtual RAM) used by Windows when the RAM is not enough. Typically, the system will delete the relevant data after no longer needed. However, if an application to have problems, the application will leave the unused data. If these data are allowed to accumulate, also participated fragmented hard disk.

Prevention:
How bad virtual system configuration of RAM will be fragmented, depending on the configuration of Windows is installed. Windows supports virtual RAM size is varied or fixed. If using virtual RAM size is varied, Windows will use the place as needed so that fragmentation occurs rapidly. Therefore, it is recommended to use virtual RAM size is fixed. This configuration is available in the System Properties, precisely under the Performance Options. There, set the virtual memory in the range of 2 to 4 GB and also set the minimum and maximum value. Use either the hard disk that can be achieved through the hard setting disk cluster. The default size is 4 KB. File size 1 MB would occupy a cluster. Instead, files will be split if more than 4 KB. Thus, hard disk performance can be improved if the cluster size is 64 KB.

Test: Defrag tools
Experimenting with the cluster is a solution that is often used professional PC users. Fitting novice PC users to use defragmentation application that can analyze your hard disk and sort files accurately.

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