Good Hard Drive Maintenance Tips
The hard drive is probably the weakest component of a computer, and unfortunately it's also probably the most important. All of your data is stored on the little electronic brain, and you've got to treat it right to get a good, long life out of it. Here are a few tips to increase your hard drive's life and avoid some of the common pitfalls of hard drive ownership. Defragment your drive regularly. This could conceivably hard drive life. The longer a hard drive is running, the more fragmented files get, causing more physical stress to the internal components as they search back and forth for specific bits of information. Defragmenting the drive moves a file's sectors into more of an orderly structure, decreasing the time taken to seek out bits of a file and in the process helping you get the best possible performance from your drive. Many experts encourage monthly, if not weekly, defragmentation of your drive. Make a schedule to defrag and make sure you f...
