subject: Disk Defragmentation - Reasons For Defragmenting Disk Regularly [print this page] Fragments could decrease the effectiveness of data access, therefore make your computer run slow. Furthermore, they could ruin the hard disk. What is worse, they increase the risk of data loss.
Firstly, fragments slow down the data access and therefore computer speed. Fragments are separate units of a file which are saved in different places in hard disk. It takes much more time to load a files of numerous fragments than to load a file which is saved as a whole. They lead to ineffectiveness of the hard disk. That is a good reason why your computer slow down when you use after a long time.
Secondly, due to overload, your hard disk could be more short-lived than usual. Because Windows system needs to fetch data from several locations to load a file. So the hard disk have to wheel faster to access the data. Before long, it will cause a lot of wear and tear in hard disk.
Thirdly, because fragments are located differently. It greatly increase the risk of data loss. If one fragment is saved in the bad track, Windows will not be able to read it. Unless you resort to professional data recovery tool, the whole file cannot open.
It is advised that you defragment the hard disk regularly. It can not only increase data access speed and improve computer performance, but also save your hard disk from overload and protect valuable files. It's advised that conduct defragmentation once a month. But note that do not defrag too much. Because overdoing defragmenting also does harm to your hard disk.
You can use a defragmenter to defragment by just few clicks. I recommend a good defragment tool which can effectively defrag all fragments. You can follow the link below to download it.
