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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In addition to the HDD/SSD split, the older drive formatting types like FAT needed to be defragged. The more modern ones like NTFS and XFS are smarter in how to allocate data and, in conjunction with better operating systems, do not need to be defragged much, if at all.
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
In addition to the HDD/SSD split, the older drive formatting types like FAT needed to be defragged. The more modern ones like NTFS and XFS are smarter in how to allocate data and, in conjunction with better operating systems, do not need to be defragged much, if at all.
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