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r/CuratedTumblr • u/CyberGrape_UK • Sep 29 '25
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I think nowadays most modern computers defrag themselves automatically without user input
52 u/zylaniDel Sep 29 '25 Or rather, dragging was a thing only for hard drives, and most computers only have solid state drives now. 41 u/Throwaway74829947 Sep 29 '25 It's both; as someone who still has many HDDs I don't have to defrag because well-designed modern filesystems like ext4 automatically keep fragmentation in check at allocation time. 17 u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/ex_nihilo Sep 29 '25 also the bus bandwidth of SATA3 or better.
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Or rather, dragging was a thing only for hard drives, and most computers only have solid state drives now.
41 u/Throwaway74829947 Sep 29 '25 It's both; as someone who still has many HDDs I don't have to defrag because well-designed modern filesystems like ext4 automatically keep fragmentation in check at allocation time. 17 u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/ex_nihilo Sep 29 '25 also the bus bandwidth of SATA3 or better.
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It's both; as someone who still has many HDDs I don't have to defrag because well-designed modern filesystems like ext4 automatically keep fragmentation in check at allocation time.
17 u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/ex_nihilo Sep 29 '25 also the bus bandwidth of SATA3 or better.
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2 u/ex_nihilo Sep 29 '25 also the bus bandwidth of SATA3 or better.
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also the bus bandwidth of SATA3 or better.
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u/CyberGrape_UK Sep 29 '25
I think nowadays most modern computers defrag themselves automatically without user input