Diskeeper Corporation: Defrag: System Slowdown vs. Maximum Performance
Defrag: System Slowdown vs. Maximum PerformanceAutomatic Defrag Software Is Vital in the Battle for Maximum System Performance BURBANK, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — November 20, 2006 — What makes a “fast computer” fast? Some willsay it takes a high-speed CPU and RAM. However, while both of thesecontribute to the overall speed of the system, by far the most
importantfactor is the disk storage system. Not because of how fast it can make asystem run, but because of how much it can slow a system down, presentingthe need to defrag.
The disk drive is the bottleneck in any computer system for one simplereason: Information can only be processed as fast as it can be delivered.Even the fastest disk drives and disk arrays cannot deliver data anywherenear as fast as RAM can store it and the CPU can process it. From that, wecan derive a simple fact: Anything that slows down the disk storage systemwill slow down the entire computer.
That’s why disk fragmentation is such a huge barrier to computer speed.Reading or writing a file that’s broken up into several pieces is liketrying to make a sandwich with the bread in the kitchen, the meat in theattic, and the condiments out in the garage. (Worse, actually — files canbe fragmented into hundreds or even thousands of pieces.) The drive mustgather the bits of the file from multiple locations. Meanwhile, theprocessor and RAM just sit there, twiddling their electronic thumbs andwaiting for the data to be delivered.
Eliminate fragmentation with defrag software such asDiskeeper 2007 by Diskeeper Corporation (www.diskeeper.com), and reading orwriting a file is like making that same sandwich with everything in thekitchen where it ought to be. The data transfer process is streamlined,which means less time elapses before the rest of the computer can get downto business.
In the Windows world, disk fragmentation is a fact of life. If you use asystem, it will fragment, and performance will begin to suffer — no matterhow fast the computer is. The key to computer speed, then, is to handlefragmentation early enough that it can’t make a significant dent inperformance, which is why an automatic defragmenter is vital for each andevery system. With defragmentation occurring automatically in thebackground, one of the major barriers to computer speed is totallyeliminated.
Simply put, without automatic defrag software in yourcorner, you may find your computer soon laying facedown on the mat.
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