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Should I defrag the hard drive running on a Virtual Machine?

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Mar 15, 202617404 views
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I know that there is no point (in fact it is a bad idea) to run Defrag on an SSD. What about a virtual machine running on an SSD, should I defrag it's hard drive since it is basically accessing the Hard Drive the same way?

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I do defrag my VHDs but for reasons of space, not time: I use the dynamically-allocated option for VHDs, so they start small and expand as needed. But as the VHD (not necessarily the files) becomes fragmented, it expands to include all of the alloca…

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