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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Your HDD is like a sheet of paper and you need to record all your notes for the whole day. If you write them all in tiny print in the corner of the sheet, over time your sheet will get damaged up there from erasing and rewriting all day, while the rest of the sheet is basically brand new. “Defragging” will spread those notes out in an organized way so you spend less time finding what you wrote. It will also prevent the corner of your paper from being the only spot used, saving some wear and tear on that area.
With an SSD, it’s not a blank sheet of paper but a daily planner, so you don’t need to organize things (defrag) because they’re already easy to access. If you did reorganize things anyways, you’d have to erase and rewrite things causing wear to your planner that’s unnecessary.
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
Your HDD is like a sheet of paper and you need to record all your notes for the whole day. If you write them all in tiny print in the corner of the sheet, over time your sheet will get damaged up there from erasing and rewriting all day, while the rest of the sheet is basically brand new. “Defragging” will spread those notes out in an organized way so you spend less time finding what you wrote. It will also prevent the corner of your paper from being the only spot used, saving some wear and tear on that area.
With an SSD, it’s not a blank sheet of paper but a daily planner, so you don’t need to organize things (defrag) because they’re already easy to access. If you did reorganize things anyways, you’d have to erase and rewrite things causing wear to your planner that’s unnecessary.
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