Unlike HDDs, SSDs can be harmed by defragmentation. Here's what to do instead to keep your drive running well.

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For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Berlin software developer O&O Software has released O&O Defrag 29 Professional, a major new release of its extremely configurable defrag and disk optimization tool for Windows. The new release is the ...

It makes sense that having the files you access most often closest to your hard drive’s read-write head will improve your system’s performance. Unfortunately, programs tend to store files in various ...

Still following these 5 PC rules? They're doing more harm than good.

Many companies look to replace a workstation after just a few years due to decreased speed. Unable to determine the cause of the inevitable performance degradation associated with older computers they ...

Tightening up the sectors on a drive storing hundreds of gigabytes may or may not boost your PC's performance, but it could extend your drive's life expectancy. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

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