It may not be one of the sexier changes Microsoft has made in Windows 7 beta, but the company has changed the way the operating system handles disk defragmentation. Microsoft developers Rajeev Nagar and Matt Garson have written a lengthy post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog explaining how fragmentation occurs, how modern hardware like high capacity hard drives changes things, and how Windows 7 differs from Windows Vista and Windows XP when it comes to defragging your hard drive.
In addition, the defragmentation window now has more detailed information about the running jobs. Windows 7 also has automatically scheduled disk defragmentation jobs, so users do not need to set it up themselves. The ability to defragment multiple hard disk partitions simultaneously is also added to the new system.
Microsoft has not forgotten the solid state disk users (which may not be so many now, but hey, they do think for the future): because there is no need to defragment flash memory, defragmentation on these volumes are turned off by default. Additionally, they state that continued write access to flash disks could actually shorten its life. Interesting huh?
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