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“If it Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It” Poses a Potentially Catastrophic Danger for Computers

When Lance offered up his quip chances are he knew little about the impending rise of the computer age. Had he known he may have developed a more proactive approach, or at least made an exception, to protecting a computer’s hard drive from the damage of fragmentation.

While the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality may work in some areas of political policy, it poses a potentially catastrophic danger for those who own computers.

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As can be seen in an article in Web Worker Daily, unprecedented deals can now be had on terabyte hard drives, making them more available than ever. Such drives have been made necessary by the growing number of files being created by today’s applications, as well as the larger file sizes required by applications such as video and audio. There has been a circulated myth that because of the size and relative speed of these drives, they do not suffer from the fragmentation disease and do not require defragmentation—but a simple understanding of fragmentation will show this not to be the case, in fact quite the opposite.

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A recent article by Computing Technology Review’s Tom Joyce discusses the fact that with every major advancement in enterprise computing comes new set of performance management challenges. This was and is certainly true of RAID technologyeven though rumors have circulated in some circles for years that RAID is a performance solution and doesn’t need defragmentation, analysis as well as user testimony has certainly shown otherwise.

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