What exactly does defragmenting a Windows PC’s hard drive do, and how is it beneficial to the system?

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And do Mac systems do this automatically?

EDIT: and does this apply to SSD’s?

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This applies to a hard drive. When your disk is fragmented it means that your data is all over the place. See the hard drive as a storage room. You are looking for tools and those tools arent together. One is on the top shelf the other one is on the bottom one etc. If you defragment your disk you sort all the data and put them together in 1 place. So your storage room is sorted and data is easy for find.

As for macs. I donno. I dont think they even got a hard drive. Prob just ssd