Figuring computer system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can be a tricky business. In addition to the equipment itself there must be added the cost of installed software, programming hours for any ...

Given the title of this article some might think, “Oh, yeah, file fragmentation. Been there, done that, got that all covered.” But with the ever-changing state of computing environments today, it is ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

Will try tonight. Sounds like a great idea. Come to think of it, why do we get fragmentation if you install Windows on a clean disk? Next time you do, go look at them gaps..

Researchers have released a paper detailing a way to conceal data from the prying eyes of law enforcement officials by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in ...