Slow PC?
By Craig Jensen, Chairman and Founder, Diskeeper Corporation
Do you remember what it was like
when your PC was brand-new? Do
you remember the feeling of exhilaration
at its speed and responsiveness
compared to your old PC? Does your PC
seem slower today? Chances are, your
PC is much slower today than when it
was brand new-much slower. Why?
The simple answer is, "fragmentation."
I'll explain that in more detail but, in
case you don't have time to read
the long version, I'll give you the
simple solution right off the bat:
Diskeeper® Home Edition. Install
Diskeeper on your PC and start it
up. Within minutes your PC will
be restored to full performance
and it will stay that way indefinitely.
Speed, responsiveness and
exhilaration will be yours once
again.
How can this be? How can such a simple thing
make such a tremendous difference in the speed
(and reliability) of your computer? I'll explain.
The speed of your computer is determined by
three things: the CPU, the memory and the disk
drive(s). I am oversimplifying a bit, but I really
want you to understand. The CPU operates at
speeds of a fraction of a billionth of a second.
(That's fast.) The memory operates at speeds of one
hundred-millionth of a second. (That's fast, too.)
The disk requires hundredths of a second for each
operation. (That's slow.) The disk is a million times
slower than the next fastest component. So, if you
were looking for a bottleneck in your computer's
speed, where would you look first? Right! The disk.
If your CPU speed is cut in half, and your memory
speed is cut in half, your PC will still seem
downright peppy so long as the disk is running at
full speed. But if that disk slows down, even a little
bit, you notice it. And if it slows down a lot, you
really notice it. You probably start to grumble about
it and, if it continues to worsen, you start looking
for a new PC. One person told me
recently that her computer takes so long
to boot up she turns it on before her
shower in the morning so it will be ready
to use by the time she is dressed!
Another said she makes coffee while
waiting for her computer to boot up.
Both these people were amazed to see
their computers boot up in seconds after
installing and using Diskeeper.
You see, the reason a disk slows
down is fragmentation. Here's
what I mean by "fragmentation":
Imagine storing information in
a paper file. You take a piece of
paper, put it in a file folder and
put the folder in a file drawer in a
file cabinet. Now when you want
to get that piece of paper back,
you just go directly to the file cabinet,
open the drawer, pull out the
folder and there's your piece of paper. So far so good.
Now add another piece of paper to the same
folder, and then another and another. Eventually,
the folder fills up and you need to make another
folder to hold the overflow. That's fragmentation.
Your one file of data is split into two fragments, the
two folders used to hold the data. Then say you
add another folder and another and eventually
find that there is no more room in the drawer, so
you move some of the folders to another drawer,
possibly even to a different file cabinet. Now when
you need to get a piece of paper out of that file, you
have to rummage around in different folders, different
drawers, even different file cabinets to find
the exact piece of paper you need. That's fragmentation.
It slows things down. A lot.
Computers fragment files in much the same
way, only they do it in true computer style: computer
files can be fragmented into hundreds of
thousands or even millions of pieces. Then, when
you try to retrieve information from that file, the
computer has to go looking all over the disk, in a
hundred thousand or a million places, to find the
exact data you are looking for. No wonder it's slow!
A single fragment requires one hundredth of a second
to retrieve, so two fragments take two hundredths
of a second, a hundred fragments take a
whole second, a thousand fragments take ten seconds.
I could go on, but the arithmetic is daunting.
You get the idea, I'm sure.
The simplicity and wonder of Diskeeper is it finds
all the pieces of a file and puts them all back
together neatly in one place. We call that a "contiguous"
file, meaning "all back together neatly in
one place."
A contiguous file can usually be read by your
computer in one disk operation-a hundredth of a
second. And if all your files can be retrieved in a
hundredth of a second each instead of seconds or
even minutes, your PC is going to be fast once
again, just like when it was brand new. Sound
good? What is it worth to you to have your PC like
new again?
What's more, Diskeeper is designed to run automatically
in the background while you are using
your computer. You don't have to sit there and
wait while it cleans up your disk. You don't even
have to start it up each time. It's fully automatic.
Just Set It and Forget It®.
Take a look at what some of our customers
have to say:
Successes:
"I love Diskeeper! It's very easy to
use and I've noticed a difference
with my system. It definitely runs
smoother and large files load
faster."
Jodi Bayer
"I have seen more system stability;
however even more remarkable is
how much faster everything seems
to be after having run Diskeeper.
Thank you!"
Lou Sussholz
"The Diskeeper defragmenter
program is a NECESSITY, not
simply a luxury."
Larry Beal
"Diskeeper is the perfect
defragmenter utility for home use,
especially for inexperienced
computer users."
Teresa Holmquist
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