Hard Drive Maintenance
Usually the laptop hard drive is easier to wear out than desktop’s. To keep the health and prolong its lifespan, you need to do some regular maintenance of your own. The laptop drive’s longevity pretty much depends on your own habit of using a computer. Here are three basic steps you need to carry out regularly to ensure the longevity of your laptop hard drive.
1. Ensure plenty of available space. 
It is always a good idea to make sure there is enough free space on the hard drive for saving new large files, you can backup the large file of computer to another medium like CD-R, DVD-R, flash drive, or external drive, because a full hard drive can be wears out much more quickly.
2. Defragment hard drive regularly.
If you have many big files in your computer and they were move frequently, then defragmentation is very important at this point to eliminate the file fragments, it is recommended to do the defragmentation once a week. You can go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Disk Defragmenter to get access to the toolkit, or you can perform fragment analyse first before you decide to defrag a specific drive. The entire process may take more than an hour. If you got a massive drive which exceeds 500G, to get a 3rd-party software like Advanced Defrag, O&O defrag can save you a lot of time.
3. Remove the unnecessary files
Unnecessary files can be easily ignored by PC users, these unwanted files such as cookies which are downloaded without users’ knowledge when you surfing the net.
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Hard drive maintenance information is useful for those who do not wish to pay the costly fees of computer and other hardware specialists.