Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options.

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

Disk Defragmenter Issue or Vista Glitch? This got so irksome that I started venting about it on Facebook. And that’s when an old high-school buddy (you rock, Scooter!) came to the rescue. He ...

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact and fast defragmentation tool that supports both FAT 16/32, and NTFS file systems. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast defragmentation of modern hard disks.

Just like sludge, information can’t flow properly, and disk performance suffers. And, just like sludge, the wear and tear on your hardware leads to actual damage to the disk, meaning a failed drive ...

Hands-on: Disk defragmentation tools offer a trade off between thoroughness and speed.

When it come to disk fragmentation, a small amount of proactive maintenance can have a big impact on help desk call volumes.

Disk defragmentation, or defragging, involves consolidation of data and removal of data fragments found within the hard drive and RAM via a system scan.

Has anyone been able to successfully set up a GPO for a scheduled task for Disk Defragmenter or some other method to having defrag run on all workstations in a domain? Did you have to point a GPO ...

He suggested I check Windows’ Disk Defragmenter. Sure enough, it was set to Run on a schedule, and the last time it ran matched up with the most recent slowdown.

Fail to defrag the SAN volumes, and suddenly that ever-expanding disk farm can start to cut into server read-write performance.