Defragmenting my drives manually is one of those things like closing apps on my phone I am not using. Everyone says there is no need to do it. It might even be slightly worse overall. I even have enough self control to avoid doing it and have for years...
But deep down in my heart, I truly FEEL like if I did it would improve things... somehow.
throwaway17_17•31m ago
I feel so seen right now. My partner complains about me closing apps on my phone consistently. I also have to hold myself back from defragging and continually cleaning up my storage drives.
I too am nearly certain that the positive benefits are approaching nil, but I still feel it should be helpful.
socalgal2•11m ago
Except for some backups, all of my machines use solid state storage so I don't think there is a point for most people, is there?
jewel•53m ago
This made me think of https://e4rat.sourceforge.net/, which moves boot files into sequential runs, which was helpful on spinning disks where seeks were slow but sequential reads were fast.
Just as an idea for a feature your defragmenter could have.
(Also this is a side thought; but I wonder if AWS AMIs and EBS volumes will boot faster if also organized sequentially.)
collabs•41m ago
I have a question about disk defragmenter. I've asked a couple of people before and they've said it is not possible but iirc if I stated disk defragmenter and then even so much as moved the mouse after it started it would start with the first boxes again. Do you remember this too?
blobdole•4d ago
Defragmenting my drives manually is one of those things like closing apps on my phone I am not using. Everyone says there is no need to do it. It might even be slightly worse overall. I even have enough self control to avoid doing it and have for years...
But deep down in my heart, I truly FEEL like if I did it would improve things... somehow.
throwaway17_17•31m ago
I too am nearly certain that the positive benefits are approaching nil, but I still feel it should be helpful.
socalgal2•11m ago