What is Disk Fragmentation on Windows and how does it optimize your hard disk?
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This is how my dad explained it to me when I was 8, yea it’s not 5, but close enough.
Your hard drive is like your room. You saving data is like you putting more stuff into your room. Over time your room becomes more crowded and you have to rip stuff out in order to throw stuff into the trash. Defragmentation is like cleaning up your room and organizing it so that items you don’t touch often might be kept under the bed, stuff you use more is on your desk, etc.
As I grew up I had to tell this to a friend. It’s different because I wanted to try my hand at explaining.
Your PC saves data similar to you building a tower of Jenga blocks. When you delete something, you are removing certain blocks from the tower. It’s not going to collapse, but it does leave holes. Over time your tower is massively tall mostly because of those holes. Defragmentation is when you let your computer help you reorganize, where in this analogy you would be rebuilding the tower putting certain colors together so it keeps things efficient and nice looking.
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