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Posted January 11, 2015
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Antimateria: Well sir, fuck you and you google girlfriend. =P

Edit: I wanted to ask from people not some google..everybody is googling pornhub anyway
SSDs don't have any platten, everything is written by address, not on a physical disk. So no, there is no need to defrag a SSD.
Posted January 11, 2015
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Antimateria: Does SSD drives need fragmenting? I don't have one but it is a valid question.
No you don't ever need to defrag an SSD at all, if you do so you will kill the lifespan of it. Every SSD now and from before with some updates will have a thing called Trim support which the SSD keeps itself maintained without help of anyone.

I been using SSD's for about 4 years now and never touched fragmenting software or the windows built in one and been doing great so far.
Posted January 11, 2015
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Antimateria: Does SSD drives need fragmenting? I don't have one but it is a valid question.
No, you gain nothing with it and it shortens their lifetime.
Posted January 11, 2015
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Antimateria: Does SSD drives need fragmenting? I don't have one but it is a valid question.
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DeMignon: No, you gain nothing with it and it shortens their lifetime.
Defragging shortens life.. Because it slowes your machines in the meanwhile. Crappy joke it was but it is still quite realism based. =)
Posted January 11, 2015
From my experience the fastest and with best results defragmentation software is Vopt.
Posted January 12, 2015
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DeMignon: ... and it shortens their lifetime.
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Antimateria: Defragging shortens life.. Because it slowes your machines in the meanwhile. Crappy joke it was but it is still quite realism based. =)
Even more true! I remember me sitting in front of my CRT monitor and staring at those little ASCII symbols arranging themselves in an orderly queue. Half an hour later, the defragmentation was complete and I had lost 30 minutes of my life. What makes those defraggers so damn hypnotic? Or is it only me?
;-)
Post edited January 12, 2015 by DeMignon
Posted January 12, 2015
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DeMignon: Even more true! I remember me sitting in front of my CRT monitor and staring at those little ASCII symbols arranging themselves in an orderly queue. Half an hour later, the defragmentation was complete and I had lost 30 minutes of my life. What makes those defraggers so damn hypnotic? Or is it only me?
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No, not only you. I used to watch them all the time when HDDs were small enough to defrag in less than 14 hours. I'd stare for 2 hours straight, watching blocks that represented HD space reorganize themselves.
Posted January 12, 2015
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Antimateria: Defragging shortens life.. Because it slowes your machines in the meanwhile. Crappy joke it was but it is still quite realism based. =)
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DeMignon: Even more true! I remember me sitting in front of my CRT monitor and staring at those little ASCII symbols arranging themselves in an orderly queue. Half an hour later, the defragmentation was complete and I had lost 30 minutes of my life. What makes those defraggers so damn hypnotic? Or is it only me?
;-)
There are so many programs which should make your life easier and they suck a bit but wait a second,do they.. but they open with PC so kinda is it actually faster and there is always pro. =)
Posted January 12, 2015
I was going to say that I never defrag but I made a discovery when checking the state of my hard disk, my system was setup to defrag once a week. I turned that off.

I'm going to check what else this thing has been doing behind my back.
Posted January 12, 2015
I hate using Windows defragger on Vista. I don't know if there's settings I'm not aware of, but I hate that it doesn't actually show me what it's doing, either with analyzing or defragging. I'm one of those weirdos; I like to watch.

But anyway, I use Auslogics. Don't really know how good it is; all I can do is go by what the screens tell me, but it is pretty fast.
Posted January 12, 2015
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justanoldgamer: I was going to say that I never defrag but I made a discovery when checking the state of my hard disk, my system was setup to defrag once a week. I turned that off.

I'm going to check what else this thing has been doing behind my back.
Cheers for the chuckles. :-)
Posted January 12, 2015
Has anyone posted this yet? It's the most comprehensive test/comparison of defrag software I've seen.

Anyway, according to that MyDefrag is the best.
Posted January 12, 2015
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drealmer7: Haha, yes, I'm sure. I can see how you might question that with my mention of CCleaner, but what I intended to get across with that mention is that I'm anal with my PCs performance and take great care of it, and with doing that, I still feel no need to defrag. I also shouldn't have used the word "scared", I suppose, the phrase "wary of its necessity for myself" is more accurate.
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misteryo: What do you perceive the potential downside to be?
Decreased drive lifetime.
Posted January 12, 2015
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drealmer7: Not if you have it de-activated.
Which you shouldn't do.
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paladin181: SSDs don't have any platten, everything is written by address, not on a physical disk. So no, there is no need to defrag a SSD.
Yes, there is a need to defrag SSDs.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWindowsDefragmentYourSSD.aspx
Post edited January 12, 2015 by Elenarie
Posted January 12, 2015
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Elenarie: Which you shouldn't do.
Yes, there is a need to defrag SSDs.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWindowsDefragmentYourSSD.aspx
Well there you go. You can teach even the tech savvy something new. :P
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