Defrag Hard drive

What does it do and will it help speed up my games?

 

All the answers and explanations to your question reside here: ​http://bfy.tw/1J5m

 

I did look it up... But has anyone done it and see improvements?

 

If you had actually done such a thing, you would know the answer.

 

That was done 10 years ago and it did indeed help on the old slow drives where usually Windows XP ran on.
Today modern OSes should defrag automatically (atleast Vista+7+8+10 do it) in the background.

Unless you turn it off for vague performance reasons.

 

NOTE: If you have a SSD, don't do it, as it will unnecessarily wear it out. If you don't know what that is, then you probably don't have one (unless you have a thin laptop, then you might).

 

In windows 10 (and probably 8/8.1) it doesn't allow you to defrag SSDs, instead it does something else to them (i can't remember the name) that is beneficial for them.

 

Yea i forgot, Vista and up automatically don't defrag SSDs. SSDs need TRIM for keeping a good performance (and that is also handled automatically).

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/trim-that-drive-why-trim-matte-142681

 

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