speaking of which... i was thinking, well, why don't harddrives just randomly place the files instead of sequentially... that way you'd have a better opportunity of reducing fragmentation at the...
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speaking of which... i was thinking, well, why don't harddrives just randomly place the files instead of sequentially... that way you'd have a better opportunity of reducing fragmentation at the...
it's due to cluster size... on FAT 32 drives, you can assign 4.2 billion [2 ^ 32] files/folders... it ends up being 4 K on smaller gig drives, and 16 K on bigger... the old FAT 16 system only...