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Defragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation on a hard disk drive.

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Should I defragment my SSD?

I have just learned that one should "Never defragment your SSD". But I have no idea if that is true. I believe that Windows 10 was automatically scheduled to finish defragmentation on my SSD, but I cancelled it. Would it cause any problems for…
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What does "Optimize Drives" do in Windows 8?

With Windows 8, there is an option to "optimize" a drive. This looks similar to the Defragment option of previous versions of Windows: I have an SSD and I know that SSDs shouldn't be defragmented. However, Windows 8 recognizes that the drive is…
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Do ext4 filesystems need to be defragmented?

Do ext4 filesystems need to be defragmented? If so, how do I defragment them? If not, could you post a simple explanation of why they do not need to be defragmented?
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Should I defrag an SSD drive?

Can I run Windows' defrag on an SSD drive ? Well I believe the short answer is yes, I've heard that SSD drives require special and specific tailored defrag programs. Is it true and, if so, where can I get it?
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Do SSDs get fragmented, and if they do, is that an issue?

Do solid-state drives get fragmented? And if they do, does it cause their performance to suffer?
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Why can't you defragment Solid State Drives?

I keep hearing that this is a huge no-no. Why is this? I run Ubuntu mostly so it doesn't affect me, but I was just wondering.
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In linux, how do you check if a disk is fragmented?

At boot, fsck sometimes reports the frgmentation for a disk: "5.3% non-contiguous". How can I get this information myself? Is there a specific fsck invocation?
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How do you defragment the MFT on an NTFS disk?

A while ago, I nearly filled my hard drive, much more than the recommended maximum of 85% of capacity. I believe that NTFS started storing files in the space reserved for the Master File Table (MFT) and the MFT had to fragment elsewhere as it…
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Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB?

I used Defraggler to defragment free space on my 100 GB C:\ drive which was 85 GB full. After defragmentation, the drive showed only 75 GB full. How did 10 GB  of free space magically appear? Did I lose any data? I did a disk cleanup before…
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How many passes does Defrag take in Windows 10?

How many passes does Defrag.exe take in Windows 10? New laptop, and I started a while ago and it's now up to Pass 14
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Is defragging relevant to improving disk performance anymore?

Does it stil make much difference, now that we have much faster and larger HDDs? Generally I find if disk performance is getting too slow, it's probably because of too little free space, and the solution is to buy a new HDD.
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Windows 8 Defragmenter?

It seems like Windows 8's defrag command has some new options, including: /K Perform slab consolidation on the specified volumes. Does anyone know what this means in English?
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Do I need to run defrag on an SSD?

Possible Duplicate: Do SSDs suffer from fragmentation? Is there an advantage to it? I mean, SSD is essentially random access memory.
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Should I defrag the hard drive running on a Virtual Machine?

I know that there is no point (in fact it is a bad idea) to run Defrag on an SSD. What about a virtual machine running on an SSD, should I defrag it's hard drive since it is basically accessing the Hard Drive the same way?
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Is it bad to defragment a USB Flash Drive?

If I defragment my 8 GB Kingston flash drive, will it decrease its lifetime?
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