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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Super short over simplified answer, traditional hard drives stored data on platters. When the drive is squeezing part of a game file in-between your cat pictures, it’s not written necessarily written in the most optimal location and can cause delays while seeking to that point.
SSDs it doesn’t matter because the table is kept exactly where each file is and doesn’t need to find it on a spinning platter at 5k+ rpm
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
Super short over simplified answer, traditional hard drives stored data on platters. When the drive is squeezing part of a game file in-between your cat pictures, it’s not written necessarily written in the most optimal location and can cause delays while seeking to that point.
SSDs it doesn’t matter because the table is kept exactly where each file is and doesn’t need to find it on a spinning platter at 5k+ rpm
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