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42 per cent of PC users don't defragment
Mark Sutton Aug 20 2007, 11:42am
A further 16 per cent of PC owners are clueless as to what defragmentation is
According to a survey by market research company, Vizu Corp, Over 42 per cent of PC users don't regularly defrag their hard drives. 26 per cent of users said they had never even tried to defragment their hard drives.
Of those interviewed a further 16 per cent were oblivious to defragmentation and what its purpose is. Of those who do defragment their machines 44.9 per cent use the operating systems tool, while a tiny 13.1 per cent choose to use a standalone utility.
Defragmenting a hard drive regularly gives a much faster disk access speed, while freeing up storage space. As a result of increasing application and operating system demands defragmentation is more important than ever for the modern PC.
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Comments
“Fragmentation symptoms”
Posted by: huttle - Aug 21, 11:37am
Most people become aware of this drive disease only when their system becomes excruciatingly slow or the drives get full and totally cluttered. Initial symptoms such as sluggishness and slow opening of applications/hangs are dismissed off being attributed to other common issues like infections. Its an underrated maintenance chore.