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Raxco PerfectDisk Will Make Your Hard Drive Perform Better |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
After using a trial version of PerfectDisk and noticing how far advanced it is compared to defrag utilities I've used in the past, I decided to purchase one and resell it to my customers in Connecticut, USA. My company provides a service where we go to customer's houses or offices and secure and optimize their computers. The service is mainly to make sure PC's are protected with the latest anti-virus and firewall software. The second portion of the service is to make sure the system performs at top speed.
One important aspect to not having a lagging computer is keeping a handle on hard drive fragmentation. For the lamen, hard drives arrange their data on with a system that looks like a grid. Each block in the grid is called a sector. Files, folders and programs which are stored on your computer are broken into pieces, each peace in a different sector. The pieces of data can be spread out to different sectors far apart from each other and are reassembled when needed. This is called file fragmentation. One problem this causes is that the further the pieces of files are spread apart, the longer it takes to put it all back together for you to use them.
There are a number of utilities out there for defragmenting your hard drive. Microsoft windows even comes with a basic one built in. A lot of these utilities do their job, but PerfectDisk by Raxco uses a defrag method which they call SmartPlacement. The idea of SmartPlacement is that while defragmenting your hard drive, it places things where they can run optimally. It does this by breaking the grid into 3 sections instead of one big one. The first section will have all of the defragmented files. The second section contains your most commonly used files and folders which have been defragmented. The third section is where all of the free space on the drive is consolidated. PerfectDisk does all of this in a single pass, which means it does not have to go over the drive several times to do the job.
If you are in search of good software to keep your hard drive maintained to its fullest capabilities, I highly recommend Raxco PerfectDisk as a user and seller of the product.
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