Why Your Drive Needs Defrag/Trim Traditional hard drives (HDD) use spinning platters to store data in sequential "blocks" across each platter. If you delete some data, the drive will go back and fill ...

How often you "need" to defrag depends entirely on how hard you thrash your disk, and with what programs. NTFS does fragment less often, and it deals with defragmenting better, but it still depends on ...