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When to defrag a hard drive, TRIM an SSD and perform other storage tasks, or not |
April 29, 2017
We still get quite a few questions about when and how to optimize storage devices. Easy answer: The care and feeding of storage devices is either taken care of automatically by Windows, or it's simply unnecessary. Mostly.[Have a tech question? Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]Defragging
Defragging hard drives (not SSDs) has been of limited benefit since Microsoft switched to the NTFS file system. Why? Because to a large extent, NTFS is self-optimizing. Add Windows’ various tricks such as pre-fetch, better ordering of files, and hard-wiring important files to set locations, and there’s rarely any noticeable degradation in hard drive performance even after years of use.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3188460/storage/when-to-check-defrag-and-optimize-storage-devices.html#tk.rss_howto
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