Hola Amigos,
In this blogpost, I am going to share the easiest method to improve your laptop's disk performance.
Wanna make a guess, well some hints: hard-disk, easiest, performance improvement!
Yes, you got it right, I am talking about disk optimization and defragmentation. (for those who didn't get it correct, it's cool! You are reading this because you wish to learn, right?)
But, before we learn how to do it, let's understand in simple terms what it means:
Fragmentation occurs when your system performs common memory function like creating, modifying or deleting files. So, what happens is that at some point of time, the OS (Operating System) needs to store these files in non-contiguous clusters and this results in improper utilization of disk clusters resulting in fragmentation. There are 2 types of fragmentation:
#1: Internal Fragmentation: Suppose each block of memory is 1024 Kb. Now if the OS allocates a block of this size to a process which requires 900 Kb, then the rest of 124 Kb (=1024-900 Kb) becomes unavailable for usage for other processes. This is internal fragmentation.
As you can see, the white space in the above illustration represents Internal Fragmentation
#2 External Fragmentation: This will be more clear from the figure below.
Now, suppose there is a process which has requested OS for 5 memory block. As you can see the above cluster contains 5 free memory blocks (in white), but the OS will not allocate them because these spaces are not contiguous! This is External Fragmentation.
Now is the time to resolve both these issues using the defragment option. So let's get started.
Step #1: Choose the drive which you want to optimize and then right click -> Properties
Step #2: Navigate to Tools tab and then click on Optimize as shown below
Step #3: Select the drive to defragment, click on either Analyze or Optimize (depending upon what you want to do)
There is actually no Step #4. If you clicked upon Optimize, then you will see the progress as shown below:
That's it! Now do it for all the drives which are fragmented and you surely going to have an improved disk-related operations.
Have any other ideas. Leave it in the comments section below.
Rest is Next!
Vipul
In this blogpost, I am going to share the easiest method to improve your laptop's disk performance.
Wanna make a guess, well some hints: hard-disk, easiest, performance improvement!
Yes, you got it right, I am talking about disk optimization and defragmentation. (for those who didn't get it correct, it's cool! You are reading this because you wish to learn, right?)
But, before we learn how to do it, let's understand in simple terms what it means:
Fragmentation occurs when your system performs common memory function like creating, modifying or deleting files. So, what happens is that at some point of time, the OS (Operating System) needs to store these files in non-contiguous clusters and this results in improper utilization of disk clusters resulting in fragmentation. There are 2 types of fragmentation:
#1: Internal Fragmentation: Suppose each block of memory is 1024 Kb. Now if the OS allocates a block of this size to a process which requires 900 Kb, then the rest of 124 Kb (=1024-900 Kb) becomes unavailable for usage for other processes. This is internal fragmentation.
#2 External Fragmentation: This will be more clear from the figure below.
Now, suppose there is a process which has requested OS for 5 memory block. As you can see the above cluster contains 5 free memory blocks (in white), but the OS will not allocate them because these spaces are not contiguous! This is External Fragmentation.
Now is the time to resolve both these issues using the defragment option. So let's get started.
Step #1: Choose the drive which you want to optimize and then right click -> Properties
Step #2: Navigate to Tools tab and then click on Optimize as shown below
Step #3: Select the drive to defragment, click on either Analyze or Optimize (depending upon what you want to do)
There is actually no Step #4. If you clicked upon Optimize, then you will see the progress as shown below:
That's it! Now do it for all the drives which are fragmented and you surely going to have an improved disk-related operations.
Have any other ideas. Leave it in the comments section below.
Rest is Next!
Vipul
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