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Engineering Windows 7: Disk Defragmentation

Microsoft writes:

"In this blog, we focus on disk defragmentation in Windows 7. Before we discuss the changes introduced in Windows 7, let's chat a bit about what fragmentation is, and its applicability.

Within the storage and memory hierarchy comprising the hardware pipeline between the hard disk and CPU, hard disks are relatively slower and have relatively higher latency. Read/write times from and to a hard disk are measured in milliseconds (typically, 2-5 ms) – which sounds quite fast until compared to a 2GHz CPU that can compute data in less than 10 nanoseconds (on average), once the data is in the L1 memory cache of the processor.

This performance gap has only been increasing over the past 2 decades – the figures below are noteworthy."

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Final Fantasy XIV x Evangelion: Ghosts of Desire Crossover Announced

Square Enix has announced a new crossover with the Evangelion will be coming to Final Fantasy XIV in the form of a new Alliance Raid.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Has Reached 8 Million Copies Sold

Sandfall Interactive has announced that their debut and Game of the Year winning game has officially sold 8 million copies.

got_dam8h ago

That's impressive. 1 million more than REm4ke.

VersusDMC6h ago

A quick google search says re4r has sold 10 million...why do people just blatantly lie here? Just say it is an impressive number which it is.

LucasRuinedChildhood2h ago

Think he might have gotten confused with the latest RE9 sales numbers: https://n4g.com/news/268819...

CrashMania7h ago

Very impressive and fully deserved, my joint favourite game this gen probably.

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1 Versus 10,000 Shooter 'Guns 'n Goblins' Announced For PC

Minishoot' Adventures developers and Lance team up for new horde-based survival FPS Guns 'n Goblins; launches on PC in 2026.

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