01-10-2024, 05:18 PM
(01-09-2024, 05:57 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: An extra defragmentation with Defrag is no longer necessary since Win XP (Prof), as the system (NTFS) automatically defragments at every opportunity.A correction I need to make as well is that Defrag was renamed to Microsoft Drive Optimizer starting with version 8.1.
Your statement is true that defragmentation is handled automatically but it's done so at very low priority. With a heavily used system the optimization may never fully get finished. I still think a manual defragmentation of mechanical drives now and then will perform some benefit to the user.
Microsoft Drive Optimizer will not attempt to defrag an SSD but it does handle the TRIM feature of SSD drives telling the drive which data blocks are marked as empty and can be rewritten to, which helps with performance.