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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Pro tip: Defragmenting only works on spinning drives because it puts the data nearer to the spindle so seek times are shorter. Solid-state drives wear out faster if you defragment them, since every write involves a little bit of damage.

[–] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I was about to throw hands, but then I learned something new about how SSDs store data in pre-argument research. My poor SSDs. I've been killing them.

[–] Kenny@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No you didn‘t. All somewhat current operating systems do not defrag SSDs, they just run TRIM and it does not kill them.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Most modern OSeses do defragmentation on the fly and you don't really need to do it anymore.

Which makes me sad because I have so many memories of watching a disk defragmenter do its thing from my childhood.

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks. It was a silly toy, but it scratched an itch, and was good for at least one chuckle.

[–] Kenny@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I loved watching disk defragmenter doing it‘s job as a kid. I miss it too!

real actually. definitely one of the most memorable progress bars. well, that and the bios update progress bar

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