Sentences with phrase «defragment mechanical hard drives»

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On a mechanical hard drive, defragmenting is beneficial because the drive's head has to move over the magnetic platter to read the data.

However, if you do have a mechanical hard drive and you've just put a lot of files on the drive — for example, copying a huge database or gigabytes of PC game files — those files might be defragmented because Windows hasn't gotten around to defragmenting them yet.

If you have a mechanical hard drive, leaving at least 15 % of it empty can reduce fragmentation in newly created files and make it easier for Windows to properly defragment the drive, which is something modern versions of Windows do automatically in the background.