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Remmi2002
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It would make ur loadtimes faster. How much faster I can't say.

 

For software, I'm not sure if this does defragmenting but "windirstat" is something that pops in my mind when you say defragmenting. 

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Defragmenting is not as important on modern systems, as they fragment less over time and also have built in background defragmentation. Anything Windows 8 or newer you shouldn't worry about. But if you want to use a program to defragment, use auslogics disk defrag. Also, defragging on boot is a horrible waste of time and will decrease the lifetime of your drive. Only once a month max is recommended.

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You could benchmark your drive now, then defrag it and benchmark again to get an objective measure of the improvement.  That way, you'll know for next time about how much it was hurting you and if it's worth worrying about.

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Defragmenting is not as important on modern systems, as they fragment less over time and also have built in background defragmentation. Anything Windows 8 or newer you shouldn't worry about. But if you want to use a program to defragment, use auslogics disk defrag. Also, defragging on boot is a horrible waste of time and will decrease the lifetime of your drive. Only once a month max is recommended.

Got a free Professional license, could try that.

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Depends on how badly the HDD is fragmented. From nothing noticeable, to potentially minutes. 

 

Just use the built in tools with Windows. 

 

Also, only defrag HDDs, not SSDs. 

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Depends on how badly the HDD is fragmented. From nothing noticeable, to potentially minutes. 

 

Just use the built in tools with Windows. 

 

Also, only defrag HDDs, not SSDs. 

the built in defrag tool for windows just runs a TRIM command on SSDs so its ok to run.  itll even show the option to "Optimize" instead of "Defrag"

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Hey there Remmi2002,
 
Defragging puts your data on the drive in a more sequential order reducing the seeking times on the drive. It would really depend on how much fragmented the drive is. You can either get a good improvement in seek times or you would hardly notice the difference. 
Gaming relies on the storage's performance only for the loading times, and FPS and graphics are not affected at all. Defragging a heavily fragmented drive would make little difference even for the loading times so I wouldn't expect big changes. Some programs that are storage-dependent might get some improvement in their performance. 
For a really good performance improvement I would consider adding a SSD to your system. :)
 
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