Hi there.
I’m trying to establish a solution for the problem of fragmentation on computer hard disks. Here is my scenario.
As a CompTIA A+ Student, I was tasked to enter a placement as a hardware technician with a school, the school itself had around 40 desktop computers. On arrival, the staff had complained about the poor performance of the computers and one of the first things that I decided to do, was run a defrag on just one desktop to examine the hard disks health.
To my amazement, it appeared that the hard disk had not received a defrag for around 5 years and the consequence being that it was terribly fragmented. It later turned out that all 40 machines were on the same boat.
Obviously, its very bad news to deprive 40 people of their computers, wither it be in a school, or a business environment so that defrag can be performed on computers, this is very long process and work needs to be done.
What is the best way to solve an issue like this, without depriving people of access to computers? I did have one thought on the matter.
What if we could run 30 seconds of defrag on a computer each day on start up? In this way, the problem is not solved instantaneously, but rather will take effect over a long period of time, computers will take 30 seconds longer to load up, but at least people are not deprived access to the computer and it also means that the problem of fragmentation is constantly tackled each day, every day.
Is this possible? and if so, can anyone explain how it might be done? For somebody like me who is genuinely interested in a job as a computer technician at junior level. This might prove very useful not only for me, but to others.
Thanks
Noel
I’m trying to establish a solution for the problem of fragmentation on computer hard disks. Here is my scenario.
As a CompTIA A+ Student, I was tasked to enter a placement as a hardware technician with a school, the school itself had around 40 desktop computers. On arrival, the staff had complained about the poor performance of the computers and one of the first things that I decided to do, was run a defrag on just one desktop to examine the hard disks health.
To my amazement, it appeared that the hard disk had not received a defrag for around 5 years and the consequence being that it was terribly fragmented. It later turned out that all 40 machines were on the same boat.
Obviously, its very bad news to deprive 40 people of their computers, wither it be in a school, or a business environment so that defrag can be performed on computers, this is very long process and work needs to be done.
What is the best way to solve an issue like this, without depriving people of access to computers? I did have one thought on the matter.
What if we could run 30 seconds of defrag on a computer each day on start up? In this way, the problem is not solved instantaneously, but rather will take effect over a long period of time, computers will take 30 seconds longer to load up, but at least people are not deprived access to the computer and it also means that the problem of fragmentation is constantly tackled each day, every day.
Is this possible? and if so, can anyone explain how it might be done? For somebody like me who is genuinely interested in a job as a computer technician at junior level. This might prove very useful not only for me, but to others.
Thanks
Noel
