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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Like everyone else is saying, SSDs don’t need to be defragmented remotely as often as old HDDs did.
Also – since Windows Vista, Windows has contained tools to slowly and passively defragment in the background when needed. The tech has been slowly refined over versions and, as of Win10, even if you use exclusively old HDDs, you’re unlikely to ever need to manually defragment.
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
Like everyone else is saying, SSDs don’t need to be defragmented remotely as often as old HDDs did.
Also – since Windows Vista, Windows has contained tools to slowly and passively defragment in the background when needed. The tech has been slowly refined over versions and, as of Win10, even if you use exclusively old HDDs, you’re unlikely to ever need to manually defragment.
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