Which of these utilities would be the best choice to help you decrease the read and write time of files to a traditional hard drive?
A) chkdsk
B) defrag
C) ntbackup
D) format
E) Now the movies I don’t like will be that much faster to load
The answer: B) defrag
The defragmentation utility moves all of your fragmented files around the drive until they’re contiguous. On traditional hard drives, this makes the process of retrieving files from the moving platters more efficient. Since an SSD does not have any moving parts, file fragmentation does not affect the speed of file access.
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Want to know more? Watch “Disk Management Tools.”If you maintain your storage devices properly, they’ll tend to be more efficient and last much longer. In this video, you’ll learn how to manually defragment your hard disks, backup their contents, and check them for any logical or physical errors. |