Comment on Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoAs 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.
bjorney@lemmy.ca 2 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