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What does a defrag actually do?

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What does a defrag do really? Does it put the files that execute in sequence closer together?

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Actually it puts all the different parts of ONE file together, so if that particular file is needed, the harddisk doesn't have to move its arm (which is the real performance-breaker here) that much to gather all the bits of the file. ==> hence, bett…

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