why is defragging not really a thing anymore?

Question

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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Answer 1

Modenr Storage is now mostly done with solid state drives whihc due to how they operate make defragging unnecessary(and even harmful since SSD flash cells have a rated number of writes). insteadd what SSDs have is a process Called TRIM which is for msot part handled automatically by the OS.

for the few situations where HDDs are still used defragging is still doable but hardly necessary since most of these drives are just for storage now.

Answer 2

Modenr Storage is now mostly done with solid state drives whihc due to how they operate make defragging unnecessary(and even harmful since SSD flash cells have a rated number of writes). insteadd what SSDs have is a process Called TRIM which is for msot part handled automatically by the OS.

for the few situations where HDDs are still used defragging is still doable but hardly necessary since most of these drives are just for storage now.