But you should not defrag SSD, due to the different working principles of HDD and SSD, doing that will reduce its lifespan. Defragmentation is very necessary for HDD. Instead, it sorts out the data address and changes the address of the data from discontinuous to continuous, so that when the computer reads the data, it shortens the search time and improves the speed. Its purpose is not to extend the storage space.
Fragmentation makes it take longer for the hard drive to search data, thereby reducing the speed of the computer.ĭefragmentation is to re-arrange discontinuous data consecutively on sectors so that the hard drives can work more efficiently. In this way, a complete program is stored on discontinuous sectors, which results in fragmentation. If this sector is not enough, the rest part will look for another sector. The program installed later will first fill up the sector of the deleted program.
But when you repeatedly delete and download, the problem occurs. In the beginning, all programs are arranged in order on the sectors of the hard drive.
