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over the hard drive to retrieve a single file. You can dramatically improve the

speed at which the hard drive reads and writes files by eliminating this

fragmentation.

Windows comes with a program called Disk Defragmenter (Windows 7)

or Optimize Drives (Windows 8/8.1/10) that can rearrange the files into neat

contiguous chunks (see Figure 9-23). Windows does this automatically by

default. Defragmentation is crucial for ensuring the top performance of a

mechanical hard drive. The “Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives”

section of this chapter gives the details on working with the various

defragmenting tools in Windows.

Figure 9-23 Windows 10 Optimize Drives

SSDs also have fragmentation of a sort, but the nature of an SSD means

almost any page is as easily accessed as any other. In the first-generation

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