What is Disk Fragmentation on Windows and how does it optimize your hard disk?
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I believe a common analogy from back in the day is books on a shelf.
Let’s say I put some books on a shelf. Usually, I’ll place the books in stacks wherever there’s space. When I remove books, I’ll leave some gaps sometimes. When I place a new stack of books on the shelf, I’ll try and fill up the gaps first, thereby breaking up the existing stack. So, since now the stack is broken up, if I want to look for a stack that has already been separated, it becomes more difficult to look for it.
When I optimise/defragment, I will rearrange everything properly and push it all to one side so that there’s continuous space at the end instead of gaps among the books. Now it’s easier to look for the books because they’re all together with no gaps.
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