Anyone else used to just watch disc defragmenter do its thing?

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  1. I havent used disc defragmentation since 2012

  2. NaughtyPwny

    lol who had the time do that? Damn I would I just play my SNES/N64 or whatever console I had growing up while this was happening.

  3. TinnyKirovsky

    Oh boy the memories. I used to do that monthly on my dad’s HP Pavilion. Starting at those small cubes changing color took years. And the Hard drive was only 2 GB!

  4. Dexterus

    Norton(?) defrag looked so much nicer with the rounded square blocks. I used to watch that.

  5. weaknclingy

    Is this needed for the SSDs? Either for SATA or M.2s

  6. BanEvasion_93

    We took 1 hour turns on the computer growing up so would defragment overnight. However, that usually led to whoever was up last staying up all night playing runescape.

  7. Far_Adeptness9884

    Hell yeah, it was very satisfying to do!

  8. notlongnot

    Norton disk utilities in dos is the one to chase

  9. worldrenownedballdr

    no I ran this a scheduled task over night like a normal person. I was not sad to see the need for this go away… it was quite slow as I recall.

  10. Bear_of_dispair

    I did and I’m so happy I don’t have to anymore!

  11. floppydisks2

    No, but I heard my disks do its thing.

  12. LojikSupreme

    Heck yeah! Fun fact, I lost a couple of drives on my first Home Server back in 2002 because I wasn’t regularly checking the drives to see if they were fragmented. After that I had task scheduler set up to run it every other week. A lot of Napster….

  13. GuNNzA69

    The one in Windows 98 was much more enjoyable.

  14. AeternusDoleo

    Not anymore. There’s no point to defragementing an SSD, the only thing you accomplish is lower its lifetime because of the massive amount of read/writes.

  15. Tsimz227

    I tell my kids this was decoding the human genome

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