Figuring computer system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can be a tricky business. In addition to the equipment itself there must be added the cost of installed software, programming hours for any ...

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 ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--You might know that file fragmentation -- the saving of files into multiple pieces (fragments), which a computer does naturally -- slows down system performance and ...

Just do it - because file fragmentation can be a performance killer that can slow even newer systems to a crawl. Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t ...

I've known that I needed to defrag for a while, but I didn't know how badly. I'm about to defrag, and I hit analyze. This is what came up:<P>View image: http://www ...

Fresh install of Win2k3 R2.<BR><BR>Fired up the NFS server, shared out a volume as NFS, went to our Linux file server, mounted the volume, fired off rsync -- heart ache.<BR><BR>All of the file writes ...

Researchers have released a paper detailing a way to conceal data from the prying eyes of law enforcement officials by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in ...