felt like saying something. I stopped worrying about defragging drives for a about a year now. windows 7 and up seems just to do fine with it built in defrag and its own set schedule. and system is fast. if Im doing massive software installs or updates then maybe defrag. but I also find doing too much defragging causes too much wear and tear even on regular harddisk.leading to sector errors. all that data moving pack and forth
In the years of Win9x there was software bundle - Norton Utilities, and defrag-program was absolutely hypnotic with its GUI showing all that moving in real time. Also that program offered option to select which files/folders bring to fast areas of HDD and which to slow ones.
There's almost no point these days. If you have a SSD/mechanical setup, with games and media on the mechanical, don't bother.
when I copy & delete at least 500Mb worth of files I would run defrag on some occasions. OP didn't say what kind of hard drive being used but defragging is not needed on SSD drives and USB flash drives
I haven't bothered in years as I never noticed any difference.Win 98 I did but since then not so much.
In Windows 8 and above it has now become "Optimize" for SSDs. You can use it to manually force a TRIM command.
Haha, awesome. I remember just staring at all those blocks flashing yellow then turning blue. The getting excited when it found a big block and starting moving loads at once! OH yeah! Hypnotic is absolutely right. It was the highlight of my system admin duties
Defrag and TRIM are two different things. SSD's become fragmented, the only reason why normal defragmenting isn't recommended is because of all the writes.
I still defrag my HDD's if they need it. Mainly what I remember about '98 is the defragger restarting every time a disk write occurred. Used to take hours.
I know, I'm just pointing out that the default Windows application won't defrag your SSDs now in 8. I don't think fragmentation is an issue on SSDs though, since the seek speed is so low.