PSA - Defrag your hard drives.

"Nibby" (nibby68) 06/21/2016 at 16:42 • Filed to: None

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Steve in Manhattan > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:51

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I remember doing this long ago - advantages and disadvantages?

Rico > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:52

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After Windows 7 it does it automagically and if you have an SSD I think it says don’t.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:53

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Lol, Hard drives? What hard drives?

lone_liberal > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:53

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Holy crap, that takes me back.

Urambo Tauro > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:54

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I haven’t seen that screen it a long time. I used to find it absolutely mesmerizing. So satisfying to watch...

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:56

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But... SSD.

Nibby > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 06/21/2016 at 16:58

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SSD MASTER RACE

but I still use larger HDs for storing data and just put OS + programs on SSDs

Nibby > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/21/2016 at 16:58

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you turn my floppy disk into a solid state

Nibby > Steve in Manhattan 06/21/2016 at 16:59

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Advantages was that it would make it faster to access files on the HD... the disadvantage is that it would usually take a while

Sam > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 16:59

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Better yet, set them to do it automatically once a week or so. Then you don’t have to ever worry about it.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Steve in Manhattan 06/21/2016 at 17:05

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As hard drives fill up, operating systems might split files into fragments and put them in different physical locations on the disk wherever there’s free space. Defragmenting rearranges everything so that files are contiguous which can reduce the amount of time needed to access them.

I think modern operating systems defragment as they go but on older computers you had manually run a program to do it and it took forever.

It’s more or less irrelevant on modern solid state drives

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 17:07

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I desperately need a new SSD, my 120 GB is completely full. My 3TB HD has plenty of room though.

(looks at newegg)

Oh no...

Nibby > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 06/21/2016 at 17:14

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Does your machine have an M.2 slot?

Sneaky Pete > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 17:25

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Steve in Manhattan > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2016 at 17:36

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I’ve got a 3 or so year old Mac Mini - should I bother?

-this space for rent- > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 17:41

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Make sure to delete your swap file so you don’t have all those unmovable blocks.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 17:41

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The black plastic box on my desk is full of tiny little wizards. You aren’t fooling anyone.

-this space for rent- > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/21/2016 at 17:42

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Lawn. Mine. You. Off.

Jake Huitt - Two Alfas And A Nissan, Not A Single Running Car > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 06/21/2016 at 17:55

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I’ll take one, thank you.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 17:56

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I don’t even know, was just joking. I’ll just buy a regular 512 SSD.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 06/21/2016 at 18:00

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I use my SSD for the OS and other essentials, but I have everything else run off of a regular HD. I'm sure this'll change in the coming years as SSD prices fall.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > gin-san - shitpost specialist 06/21/2016 at 18:02

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I do the same, but my 120GB is full now.

extraspecialbitter > Nibby 06/21/2016 at 18:11

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > -this space for rent- 06/21/2016 at 19:54

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 Rust spinning pleb

-this space for rent- > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/21/2016 at 20:06

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It’s still a little pricey to replace my 4TB of spinny things with SSD.

facw > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2016 at 20:20

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Yes, OSs do this in the background now (maybe not for SSDs, where it would introduce excessive wear), but you shouldn’t have to manually defrag on a modern OS.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > -this space for rent- 06/21/2016 at 20:42

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You have to get on that pic express/m2/nvme SSd lyfe 10gbps read write.

I use a server array for my mass storage needs.

-this space for rent- > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/21/2016 at 22:36

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I have Samsung evos in my Lappy and newer computer. Ol’ spinny just records security camera feeds and has misc storage.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Nibby 06/22/2016 at 08:29

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Is that the DOS defrag screen? Why am I having flashbacks?

Nibby > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 06/22/2016 at 08:35

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You liked it.