Comment on Memories of defragging your computer

Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  no

  datarecovery.com/…/why-you-dont-need-to-defrag-ha…

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  • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So it runs automatically in the background?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you’re running NVME or SSD, you don’t have to worry about fragmentation at all and neither will NTFS or Windows.

      On rotational media, recent versions of windows do it when it needs it. NTFS itself has become better about not splitting up files when there’s contiguous space available.

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      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have two 10 terabyte external hard drives that go whirr (so I assume there are platters in there). Do they need a defrag? I’m running Windows 11.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh good thanks 🙂

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hopelessly did this on Win 98 without a clue what was happening, so why not?

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