And fragmentation can be bad; files can be split into tens, hundreds or even thousands of files. Not only can be performance come to a near-standstill, but system hangs and crashes can result as well.

Fragmentation comes about when a system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous disk space to store an entire file in a single location on a disk. Instead, the file ends up being broken into ...

Fragmentation issues with the page file can cause “out of virtual memory” errors and can also cause data loss. Elsewhere, a heavily fragmented Master File Table (the file allocation table used by NTFS ...

Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually occurs, company executives said Friday.

Fresh install of Win2k3 R2.Fired up the NFS server, shared out a volume as NFS, went to our Linux file server, mounted the volume, fired off rsync -- heart ache.All of the file writes onto the ...

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but why the hell do the files become so fragmented - mainly the .gcf files? All the fragments get shoved to the inner edge of the disk and after playing ...