Windows, Windows 10 and disk fails - Advantages of the Linux file system over Windows
Down through the years, it is unfortunate but true that any diehard Windows user will have experienced a serious disk failure. While it is true that like any mechanical device, disks are prone to occasional error, and like everything in this universe, eventual decline unless work is done, there are fundamental reasons why the Windows Operating System is more prone to disk issues that Linux based systems.
Given the same hardware, and allowing for different flavours of Linux and file systems, generally Linux disk systems tend to be better performant and more reliable:
- Linux filesystem avoids fragmentation, where the free space of a disk becomes broken up over time into smaller parts, and then newer large files must be broken apart in order to fit into the free space. Fragmented drives tend to perform more slowly, and defragmenting is a slow process.
- Linux seems to make better use of caching, where file contents is read and written in memory (the very fast, volatile storage of a computer), improving performance by only involving the slower, longer-term storage of disk, when really necessary
A Blue Screen of Death:
A sort of "Green screen" of death - I guess this was added to Windows, for some variety...
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