Threats, Vulnerabilities and Maintenance

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Threats, Vulnerabilities and Maintenance
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1THREATS, VULNERABILITIES AND MAINTENANCE
The way Windows disk defragmenter tool helps optimize hard drives
In its life time the hard drives are often fragmented when some kind of data deletion
or removal is done from the disk. Now when the operating system tries to store a new file or
install an application on the hard drive it often tries to store on the contiguous space available
on the drive. In case the required contagious space is not available it accommodates the file
into multiple location.
In case the hard drive is too much fragmented then it becomes bad especially for the
applications while installing applications on the computer as the applications needs to be
installed over multiple locations. In this scenario the performance of the application gets
degraded as it needs to be loaded from multiple memory segments.
Use of defragmenter helps the user to manage the hard drive in such a way that new
files are allocated as much possible in the contiguous space as. Defragmenter searches the
complete hard drive and relocates data from different locations and stores in one contiguous
memory space instead of being spread.
As the basis of fragmentation of drive is the storage drive depends on the moving
parts in order to retrieve or read therefore since Solid state drives does not contain any
moving parts thus it is not necessary to use defragmenter for “Solid State drives” to optimize
seek time or reduce rotational latency.
Pros and cons of automatic windows updates
Pros of Update
Security: The OS is equipped with the up to date security patches for the system.