I was born in 1973, got my first computer in 1994, defragging was part of regular maintenance. I can’t remember the last time I defragged anything, even though I have several devices with hard drives, including a Windows laptop. Has storage technology changed so much that defragging isn’t necessary anymore? Is it even possible to defrag a smart phone hard drive?
edit to add: I apologize for posting this same question several times, I was getting an error message every time I hit “post”… but from looking around, it seems I’m not the only one having this problem today.
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Defragmenting spinning disk hard drives is handled silently in the background by the operating system. This is thanks to faster hardware making the task trivial.
Defragmenting an SSD is actually bad for the drive. It creates unnecessary wear for little to no gain.
I was born in 1973, got my first computer in 1994, defragging was part of regular maintenance. I can’t remember the last time I defragged anything, even though I have several devices with hard drives, including a Windows laptop. Has storage technology changed so much that defragging isn’t necessary anymore? Is it even possible to defrag a smart phone hard drive?
edit to add: I apologize for posting this same question several times, I was getting an error message every time I hit “post”… but from looking around, it seems I’m not the only one having this problem today.
In: 821
Defragmenting spinning disk hard drives is handled silently in the background by the operating system. This is thanks to faster hardware making the task trivial.
Defragmenting an SSD is actually bad for the drive. It creates unnecessary wear for little to no gain.
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