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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SSD’s don’t really care *where* the data is because it doesn’t have a seeker head, so it doesn’t benefit you as much to read files from continuous blocks. There is a similar task called TRIM which helps with performance, it is automatically turned on so you don’t really have to do anything.
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
SSD’s don’t really care *where* the data is because it doesn’t have a seeker head, so it doesn’t benefit you as much to read files from continuous blocks. There is a similar task called TRIM which helps with performance, it is automatically turned on so you don’t really have to do anything.
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