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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Defragmentaion was essentially moving data around to for into containers that best for their size. Defragmentaion was more required with older storage formats like FAT-16 and FAT-32 where data had to be stored into something like a container on the disk. 27kb data chunk would be stored in a container that allowed for 32kb for instance and the entire drives partition is made up of these little containers. Eventually we moved on to a new storage formatting called NTFS which essentially forms these sections to the size of the data which made defragmentaion less needed. Furthermore solid state drives only allowed for days to be written to it so many times before permanent damage is done so defragmentaion is actually harmful to them.
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
Defragmentaion was essentially moving data around to for into containers that best for their size. Defragmentaion was more required with older storage formats like FAT-16 and FAT-32 where data had to be stored into something like a container on the disk. 27kb data chunk would be stored in a container that allowed for 32kb for instance and the entire drives partition is made up of these little containers. Eventually we moved on to a new storage formatting called NTFS which essentially forms these sections to the size of the data which made defragmentaion less needed. Furthermore solid state drives only allowed for days to be written to it so many times before permanent damage is done so defragmentaion is actually harmful to them.
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