In the age-old debate of “is it a bug or a feature”, fragmentation must fall square in the middle. A long time ago, files were stored wholly on a hard drive. It wasn’t long, though, before someone saw ...

Some may feel that disk fragmentation is no longer an issue or that it is not an important thing to address or handle, what with malware running rampant, new viruses, spyware and Root kits that hide ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

How do you keep something secret? A team of researchers has found a novel steganographic technique that uses the way data is stored on a hard disk. How do you keep something secret? If you encrypt it ...

It makes sense that having the files you access most often closest to your hard drive’s read-write head will improve your system’s performance. Unfortunately, programs tend to store files in various ...

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 ...

Diskeeper Corp. this week disclosed that it has developed of its most significant technological breakthroughs, which it said will prevent up to 85% of all fragmentation from ever occurring in Windows ...

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 ...

One of the best ways to improve a computer's performance is to take advantage of Windows 10 disk optimization. The system's hard disk plays a direct role in Windows' reliability and performance. A ...