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You still do defragment HDDs today
by lloydatkinson 5y ago
You still do defragment HDDs today
- zozbot234 5y agoModern file systems do not need defragmenting. It was something that was only really done with FAT.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThat is completely false. Typically I saw 30% to 100% performance improvements on ext4 by deleting and restoring database directories. You can see disk fragmentation on linux with the filefrag and other commands.
- kasabali 5y agoext4 also has a defrag tool - e4defrag (8)
- lloydatkinson 5y agoAre you trolling? NTFS.
- bityard 5y agoModern file systems are better at _avoiding_ fragmentation than FAT was, but they are not immune to it.
- kasabali 5y agoThey do, it's just that Windows runs defrag automatically as a background task nowadays so you don't notice.