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Does Defragmenting really help?

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Mar 15, 202618718 views
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Possible Duplicate: Is defragging relevant to improving disk performance anymore? It used to be that defragmenting a hard drive gave a significant boost to performance. In the DOS days I would even defragment floppies if I wasn't going to make more changes to the files (it took a LONG time, but was…

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Defragmenting in general will have little perceptible effect unless the filesystem is very fragmented to start with (i.e. has been around some time and seen a lot of activity, or has become very full (>85%) at some point). Modern filesystems like ex…

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