#87 - Question/Answer: Defragmentation

Q. What's defragmentation? How often should you defragment and at what percent? What are the best defragmentation programs?

A. I personally use O&O Defrag, but Raxco PerfectDisk is great. There's also a free defrag program called
Auslogics Disk Defrag. Watch the video to find out more... http://www.Support3GM.com

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Science & Technology

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• computer
• hdd
• hard
• drive
• degrag
• degragmentation
• defragment
• o&o
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[nightcrawler2099]

if you do it everyday then it never builds up so it should only take a few seconds instead of like an hour once a week

[unstable112]

Why would you. It doesnt have any effect.

You should do it like once a month... thats when it has the most effect.

[NostalgicLink]

@lzxc10 Thanks for the tip ;-)

I read someone else's comment below and saw something about TRIM is the way to properly remove files from an SSD, what's that all about? Should I TRIM up the SSD everytime I uninstall something?

[lzxc10]

@NostalgicLink Yes you will shorten its lifespan

[NostalgicLink]

Is defraging an SSD bad for it?

[risingpower]

DEFRAGGLER SON!

[MrEmilsmg]

check out game booster it does all kinds of things to your computer so it runs faster

[73prime]

What is the best De-frag program out there today. I am currently using Smart De-frag 2.

[Lokalaskurar]

@MW2mostwanted Depends. Short answer: Yes, SSD's require something called 'TRIM' for short. When deleting something on a SSD, cells inside the disk will be used-up, and the disk will eventually act slow and 'used'. You might want to look 'TRIM' up.

If you are referring to defragmentation, then NO. SSD's should NOT be defragmented. It won't like "blow the disk up", but SSD's don't become 'fragged' in the first place. So defragging a SSD is totally unesessary, it only tears on the disk itself.

[MW2mostwanted]

Does ssd needs maintaining like hdd?

Hdd=defraging

Ssd=???

[keru2010]

thanks for the help

[verygoodyutubers]

I haven't defragmented my computer in like 8 months. I'm running it now but it's taking a veryyy long time it's been 14 hours now... Do you thnk it's because I hadn't defragmented it in such a Lon time? And will his greatly improve it's performance?