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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Because it is called “Optimize Drives” now.
That includes “Defragmentation” for HDD drives and it is done automatically by Windows. Default setting is “weekly”, but it can be changed.
For Solid State Drives, that is a different process, called “Trimming”.
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
Because it is called “Optimize Drives” now.
That includes “Defragmentation” for HDD drives and it is done automatically by Windows. Default setting is “weekly”, but it can be changed.
For Solid State Drives, that is a different process, called “Trimming”.
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