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 SSDs rule the world and they couldn’t care less how ridiculously dispersed the individual bits are for a file, they can access them so stupidly fast it no longer matters. Moving HDDs can’t access data that’s spread out all that quickly, and it also puts wear on the disk to move around that much searching, so it was, and still is for HDDs, recommended to defrag regularly.
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 SSDs rule the world and they couldn’t care less how ridiculously dispersed the individual bits are for a file, they can access them so stupidly fast it no longer matters. Moving HDDs can’t access data that’s spread out all that quickly, and it also puts wear on the disk to move around that much searching, so it was, and still is for HDDs, recommended to defrag regularly.
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