Fragmentation

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In computer storage, fragmentation is a phenomenon in the computer system which involves the distribution of data into smaller pieces so that storage space, such as computer memory or a hard drive, is used inefficiently, reducing capacity or performance and often both.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Fragmentation (computing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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