Comment on Memories of defragging your computer
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 hours agoI 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.
Comment on Memories of defragging your computer
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 11 hours agoI 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.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Need? Probably not unless they’re nearly full. Get some benefit from? at least a little. NTFS and 11 try to keep fragmentation at bay without killing your disk. New writes that won’t fit in a hole are pushed ahead of the platter until they will.
Go run optimize drives, it’ll tell you what the state is
elevenforum.com/…/optimize-and-defragment-drives-…