fragmented disk drive
n=1
Disk Drive As Dispersed Cattle
a: Fragmented disk drive ~
b: a dispersed herd of cattle
What: It all about time and space. 100 cattle scattered over 10 acres take time to round up. 100 cattle on 1 acre take much less time and effort. Likewise with fragmented memory on a disk drive. If a file is written to numerous parts of a disk and not a single location, the drive has to jump around to find all the bits and pieces, which takes time and energy.
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Writer: LucretiaMia
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 23 2012 11:53 AM
# 2288 Critique Analogy
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