HDD Defragmentation - How it works and Why it works!

Many of us have come across the term "De Fragment your Hard for increased speed" or  "you have to De Frag your drive to keep it fast" and even "A full drive makes your computer slower" (a fuller drive worsens fragmentation)

SO WHY DOES IT WORK? - Think about Tetris!... sorta

Our hard drives are Spacious big entities where we dump our Operating system, data, pictures videos and other personal files, each file has a certain size, data is written onto the hard drive in blocks of information, small files take 1 or few blocks, while big and larger file take much many blocks, Have you ever played TETRIS? well, your computer plays Tetris too every time it saves files!

 

Each color represents a file, new big files will be split inside 

those empty spaces! Fragmentation in a nutshell!

New Year Defrag - Get your Disk in top shape!

I feel obligated to give and in-depth guide of what is fragmentation and how De-fragmentation programs work, but for the purpose of finishing  the "New Year's" series of January i will save that for the next post.

Defragmentation ! - Make your drive go zoom zoom!

We hear it all the time, "Defragment your drive to make it faster" and i can assure you this applies to everyone who uses a computer regularly, after many write cycles files get spread all over the drive, so just in time, right after this big New years clean up, its time to sort all and gain back some speed!


There are several Defragmentation programs available, from many brands and with different features, and you might spend hours reading and trying programs to see which one is better, the truth is that each program tackles your information and fragmentation in different ways, so my goal in this post is to recommend a good "all around" program that brings forth a lot of optimizations, ease of use and doesnt take hours to do so.

 this one is quite handy and has a lot of perks to it!

New Year's Check Up - Checking For Viruses and Malware!

Welcome back, if you followed my guide last week, you might be enjoying a somewhat less cluttered and faster system, but its time we get rid of any virus trojan or malware that might be affecting your system!.

What is the best antivirus? - http://www.av-comparatives.org/
Often i come across this question, and there are preferences for every one out there, some people love N0rton or Mkaffee,(i dont like them personally) what i like to do is check out an independent organization called AV-Compares, that tests antivirus programs 3-4 times  a year against a pool of old and new viruses a good antivirus that catches every single threat will tax your syetem making it slow and  and a "light" antivirus might not catch all of them. (on last years tests, Avast was granted the best free antivirus due to its speed and ability to catch a high percentage of threats, but there are better (slower) ones, check Av-compares  often for up to date data.