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Do people still think to defrag HDDs on windows? I wonder if that's an issue people are seeing.
by jayd16 5y ago
Do people still think to defrag HDDs on windows? I wonder if that's an issue people are seeing.
- nullify88 5y agoWindows usually does it automatically as part of a maintenance routine. Unless you were writing and deleting lots of files causing fragmentation, there isnt usually much to gain with manual runs.
- Arainach 5y agoYou haven't needed to manually defragment hard drives in Windows in decades.
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- zokula 5y agoYes you do. In fact in Windows/NTFS you can lose gigs of space from disk fragmentation.
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- Arainach 5y agoThe system does it automatically and has since at least Vista, probably XP. Furthermore, there's no benefit (and in fact active harm) to defragging an SSD.
- nix23 5y agoHe talks about HD's, on Windows 10 you cant de-frag ssd's just optimize, aka trim. But de-frag HD's is often needed on windows in certain work scenarios.
- Arainach 5y agoWindows 10, just like Windows 8 and 7, automatically defragments spinning drives once a week. You never need to manually do it.
- nix23 5y agoAnd? Maybe it's needed to be more often or not at all. However in Windows 10 you cannot defrag (with internal tools) SSD's like you wrote.
- Arainach 5y agoI never said you could. I said that you didn't need to defrag manually, and that with the rise of SSDs doing so would be actively harmful.
- kiwijamo 5y agoI used to obsessively defrag my drives and it made very little difference. So much happier switching to SSD.