Chapter 5B Measuring and improving Drive Performance
Data Transfer Rate The speed with which data can be transmitted from one device to another. Data rates are often measured in megabits (million bits) or megabytes (million bytes) per second. These are usually abbreviated as Mbps and MBps, respectively.
Disk Clean UP
Disk Scanning
Defragmenting
File Compression It is the technology for shrinking the size of a file so it takes up less space on the disk. This frees up space for more data and programs to reside on the disk.