Comment on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

butter@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not that it happens in the background, it’s that you don’t defrag SSDs

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  • Xin_shill@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t decrease seek time if you don’t seek :(

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As others have said, HDDs still defrag, Windows just auto schedules it in the background.

    If you don’t have any HDDs, I’d reccomend getting some. You can get a metric ton of storage for cheap, and the speed difference is only noticable when gaming or moving large files across multiple ones. So just put your games on an SSD.

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    • bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes it happens in the background, but also, people’s use case for HDDs nowadays doesn’t even really necessitate defragmentation in the first place.

      If you aren’t using your disk for your OS where frequent temp writes etc are occurring, there is minimal opportunity for it to become fragmented, and if you aren’t gaming, you aren’t going to notice any performance hit associated with a minimally fragmented HDD

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  • butter@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SSDs Dude, my only laptop is a T420 that is mostly just a better keyboard than my phone. It ain’t got an SSD

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve periodically checked my HDDs and they’re never defraged. I think it happens in the background.

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    • bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Newer windows versions lets you set up scheduled defrags, yeah, but also if you aren’t using your HDD for your OS there is little to no opportunity for it to become fragmented in the first place

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