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complexity or inflexibility.
Dynamic Disks. Before Storage Spaces came along, there were
other ways to tell Windows to treat multiple drives as one. Even
today, you can still create dynamic disks, basic disks, and spanned
volumes—all methods of slicing and dicing your actual disks in
clever ways.
Disk Cleanup. This ancient predecessor to Storage Sense is still
around, too.
Disk Defragmenter. If your hard drive is very full for a long time,
it may run out of space to “lay down” big new files. It winds up
splitting them across multiple spaces on the disk’s surface. Over
time, this file fragmentation slows down your PC.
Today, Windows defragments your drive in the background, but the
old Disk Defragmenter app is still around for the benefit of
historians and control freaks.
Disk Quotas. When several people share a PC, one glutton may
become overzealous about downloading stuff. Using the Windows
“quota management” feature, you can limit the amount of disk
space each account holder is allowed to use.
Each of these features and apps is described in a free PDF appendix, named
appropriately, on this book’s “Missing CD” at missingmanuals.com.
