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> No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore. SSDs, primarily. Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD
by deergomoo 8y ago
> No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.
SSDs, primarily. Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.
- wtallis 8y ago> Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful. Fragmentation will slow down your SSD. For non-server workloads, the SSD is very likely still plenty fast. Running a hard drive defragging program on your SSD will only address one of the two forms of fragmentation that SSDs are subject to, and thus will not help performance much. It will also unnecessarily burn through some of the SSD's limited write endurance, but that is almost never worth worrying about.