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To defrag or not to defrag? (non-SSD)
My secondary drive in my system is a 2TB standard hard drive. Windows 10 defrag (both UI and the command line) tells me that I do not need to defrag the disk, as it is "0% fragmented" but upon delving a little further (adding the /V switch) I notice that it doesn't include files above 64MB in size in the statistics. So I checked in Piriform's Defraggler app and after analysis on the disk says it is 80% fragmented (and shows a lot of red on the disk pattern graphic)
I'm only really curious because that disk does chug away a lot and it also does include a backup (of sorts) of Windows 7 on there which I keep as a fail-safe option and whenever I boot into that it is incredibly slow to get going.
So my questions are, should I actually defrag the drive or just leave it as is seeing as my main OS isn't running from it? Is there any benefit in defragging these days?