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Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

Why do disks fragment?

#Why do disks fragment? AsAs a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

#Why do disks fragment? As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

Why do disks fragment?

As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

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SimonSimon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

#Why do disks fragment?Why do disks fragment? As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

#Why do disks fragment? As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

#Why do disks fragment? As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?

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Simon is quickly turning into one of our top question askers and answerers! I'm suggesting another one of his posts for this week's QotW:

#Why do disks fragment? As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?