Defragmentation: Panacea or Placebo?
Hard disk fragmentation got a close look from Storage Supersite readers last week as they weighed in on the value of defragmentation and optimization for drive performance and reliability.
I sparked the debate in a recent column exploring the reliability side of defragmentation based on a briefing on the subject by Executive Software International, the makers of the Diskeeper utility. The paper posited that Windows XP requires managers to become more diligent about fragmentation than previous releases.
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