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Title: What is fragmentation? What effect does fragmentation have on a hard disk drive (HDD)?
Post by: TVarnum on Dec 7, 2019

What is fragmentation? What effect does fragmentation have on a hard disk drive (HDD)?

Title: What is fragmentation? What effect does fragmentation have on a hard disk drive (HDD)?
Post by: mmj22343 on Dec 7, 2019

Answer (should include points such as):
Fragmentation is a situation in which data for the same file is contained in noncontiguous clusters on the hard disk drive (HDD). Fragmentation can degrade the performance of a HDD, causing the read/write heads to have to traverse the platters to locate the data.