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My ex told me that when you have stuff on your computer but then delete the stuff that it leaves holes in the places where the stuff use to be. So you gotta scrunch or squish the data together; eliminating the holes. I remember when she would do it to her PC itd take many hours.

I think she called it, Fracking or something like that. So, do I need to frack my computer?

I don't think defragging is necessary on modern computers. I mean SSDs don't need it and Windows defrags automatically mechanical HDDs.

No, but you should probably go frack yourself.

It's called Defragmenting. It used to be a thing, but modern computers no longer need it. 20 years ago, I'd have to defragment mine about every month or so and, yeah,...it would take about 4-5 hours. I'd always do it over night.

You can find the Defrag tool under Windows System-->Windows Administrative Tools, but as others have said, it's not something you need to do particularly often. You can run the tool to tell you how fragmented the drive is, if you're curious, but you're probably fine to ignore it.

I am not tech support.

Cacciato posted...

No, but you should probably go frack yourself.

Lol!

So what she's talking about are kirkendall voids, which are empty bits of solder connections along the whisk of the gall connection of the capacitors.
What defragging does is, by running electricity through the capacitors (which is how memory is stored in RAM), you heat it up and cause thermal expansion. The expansion of the capacitors helps fill in the kirkendall voids and creates better solder connections.

EDIT: Shoutout to my VX Junkie brothers for helping teaching me about these things.

HornedLion posted...

I think she called it, Fracking or something like that. So, do I need to frack my computer?

Defragmentation

adjl posted...

You can find the Defrag tool under Windows System-->Windows Administrative Tools, but as others have said, it's not something you need to do particularly often. You can run the tool to tell you how fragmented the drive is, if you're curious, but you're probably fine to ignore it.

Never defrag an SSD. You will literally physically wear it out. However, HDDs, yes you should occasionally defrag them. And yes, when writing new data to a drive, if previous data was stored there, it might leave a pattern in storage like +++xx++++xx+++xx+++ where + is places where data is stored, and x is places where no data is stored. this can significantly slowdown the drive. Defragmenting a drive reorganizes all the data on the drive so everything that should be indexed together will be placed together. So that pattern above will then look like +++++++++++++xxxxxx where new data can be written to the x's and it will then be faster to retrieve all the data since it will all be placed, for lack of better term, "in order".

Any reason why? Something on there you really don't want ppl to find?

pionear posted...

Any reason why? Something on there you really don't want ppl to find?

I didnt know defragmentation erased stuff. I thought its what you do after youve already deleted stuff to make it all neat and compact.

I used to defragment my hard drive every so often. Now the computer automatically does it.