파일뉴스넷 :: 유틸리티, 멀티미디어, 인터넷, 게임, 드라이버 자료실

하드디스크(HDD)를 오랫동안 사용하다보면 파일시스템의 속성상 파일들이 필연적으로 조각이 난 상태로 흩어져 여기저기에 저장이 되게 됩니다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방법이 디스크 조각모음인데요, 이런 기능을 제공하는 유틸리티는 도스 시절부터 존재해왔고 아마 그 이전에도 있었을 겁니다.

최근에 와서는 D모 유틸리티가 시장의 리더입니다. 하지만 컴퓨터를 전문적으로 사용하지 않는 사용자에게는 조금 부담이 되는 용량과 비용 문제가 있지요.

간단히 사용할 수 있는 디스크 조각모음 유틸리티 중에 Auslogics Disk Defrag 는 단연 돋보입니다. 완전 무료인데다가 조각 모음 과정의 시각적인 효과가 조각 모음의 재미를 배가시켜 줍니다. 자동으로 조각 모음이 되지는 않지만 사용자 스스로 조각 모음을 실행할 수 있는 좋은 동기를 제공합니다.

이 프로그램은 윈도 Vista/XP/2000/2003, 32-bit and 64-bit 에서 사용가능하며 듀얼코어(dual-core) CPU 를 지원하도록 설계되었습니다.

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Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks.

Why Defragment Disks?

Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.

Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the disk drive heads move too much when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.

Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It is optimized to work with today's modern hard disks. Auslogics Disk Defrag is extremely simple to use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the other disk defragmentation software. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And, what’s most important, it's absolutely free.

Defragmentation Explained

Fragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading files from the Internet. Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they're saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume.

When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs. The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file input and output performance will be.

Defragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system performance.

In June 1999 the ABR Corporation of Irvine, California, performed a fragmentation analysis and found that, out of 100 corporate offices that were not using a defragmenter, 50 percent of the respondents had server files with 2,000 to 10,000 fragments. In all cases the results were the same: Servers and workstations experienced a significant degradation in performance