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- So - that means that a request to read File "A" will not only take longer,
- but will produce more wear and tear on your drive because the read-write
- heads must position themselves once again to the sector beyond File "Z"
- where "A" continues, then read to end-of-file. Relative to the rate at
- which your drive can actually read data once properly positioned, the
- movements of the heads take enormous amounts of time thus slowing down
- your drive's performance and ultimately making you wait!
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- Want more good news? Disk fragmentation almost always occurs to a much
- greater extent than the example we're using here. For instance, it would
- not be unusual for a drive to look something like the following...
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