BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - 07/01/09) - Even in the best of times, no company wants to waste money. No CFO worth his or her salary is going to allow the purchase of new factory machinery, for example, if the existing equipment can be repaired and utilized at a fraction of the cost. New company cars? What's wrong with the old ones? And new office furniture for the employees? Not while the current desks, chairs and partitions still have a nice appearance.

In these economic times, though, such cost-saving actions result from more than a CFO's watchful eye; they stem from necessity. It's just not in a company's budget to purchase new factory machinery, and not only is the company not purchasing new company cars, many executives have had to turn theirs in and drive their own. And new office furniture is nowhere on the horizon.

Computer equipment can be an interesting problem, for computer operations are a foundation of corporate business. The IT department is certainly going to have to demonstrate the need for equipment, but if it's needed it will have to be purchased.

There are measures that can be taken to preserve computer hardware, however, sometimes beyond its expected life. A great example is hard drives. It's true that a hard drive is the only computer component that has mechanical, moving parts that can break down -- but file fragmentation, if not properly addressed, is the hidden culprit behind the considerable shortening of hard drive life. Every time a file is requested, a read/write head must move across the disk platters and retrieve that file, and file fragmentation adds additional movements for every fragment. Because the free space on a drive is also fragmented, the same holds true for writing a file: the read/write head will have to keep moving until it has written all the fragments of a file in the free spaces available.

Fragmentation can decrease hard drive life by 50 percent or more -- hence, the right defrag technology will increase that life to expected lifespan and beyond. A fully automatic defrag solution will ensure that drives are always maintained in a fragmentation-free state, and that fragmentation will never be a problem again. Such a solution defragments invisibly, in the background, never requiring scheduling and never having a negative performance impact on users.

Utilizing a fully automatic defrag solution, hard drives are one expense the company won't have to cover until they're truly needed.

 
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