It's not such an easy task to prevent harddisk fragmentation altogether.
When data is initially written to the disk, it is written as one long sector. But over time, files are moved and deleted from the harddisk, which leaves "holes" in the data. When more data is written to the disk, the system attempts to fill in these holes. Hence, fragmentation occurs.
The easiest way to help gain back the speed you loose on your HDD from fragmentation is to defrag... set it so it runs at night when you're not using the computer. That's what I do and it works beautifully. |