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Memories of defragging your computer (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Defrag is usually only for drives that are written to and data deleted often, creating gaps. If it's just storage, probably ok. I've got 4x 20TB drives in my truenas, but it's zfs, from what I've read, can't or don't need to defrag.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/optimize-and-defragment-drives-in-windows-11.3212/

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