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Hard drive usage during defragmentation

sonyzz
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So I have 3 hard drives, all of them need defragmentation to be done, since they are high capacity drives, it will take a while...my question is - can other drives be accessed for music files pictures videos etc, if one of them is defragmenting? In the past I was leaving pc to defragment hard drive 1 of 3 and was doing nothing with pc at all...main drives (OS) is an ssd

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With windows 10, you don't need to manually defragment the drive especially the SSD drive.

It will defragment automatically in the background.

I've not touch defragment for like 5 years.

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38 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

With windows 10, you don't need to manually defragment the drive especially the SSD drive.

It will defragment automatically in the background.

I've not touch defragment for like 5 years.

I know about ssd's which get trimmed, but, I've turned that feature off because there was some information floating around the net tha new windows version of 2xxx borks some users pc's if defragment automatically is on

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