Hard Drive OPTIMIZATION

[FlareTech]

Hello everyone! So I was browsing the Web and overcame a video from 4 years ago made by NCIX Tech Tips on Optimizing a Hard Drive for performance. I was wondering if this method is still viable for today and if I should use it. A guide on doing so that is more descriptive would be great but I just want to know if it works. I have a 2TB Seagate Barracuda and it works very well and pretty fast and I do not use all of its capacity so I thought that doing this may increase performance. Thanks!

 

[CountMike]

Modern OSs like W7 and W10 fragment file system very little, defragging is rarely needed. If you left it on atuto, windows will also do some defragging at quite times.
If you still want to check and try, https://www.glarysoft.com/disk-speedup/ is probably the best program.

 

[FlareTech]

Thanks!!

 

[tennis2]

@OP - supplying a link to the guide you're referencing is recommended so you're not requiring everyone to search the net for it.

Nothing meaningful has changed in 4 years. More than likely the guide is still valid. You probably won't notice a difference. Also, IIRC files get written to a HDD from the outside of the platter(s) to the inside. Since the OS is typically the first data written to a hdd, that data will be on the outside edge of the platters (which is best). Also Windows caches files in RAM to speed up load times. This used to be called Superfetch.

If you want a SIGNIFICANT performance improvement, invest in a Solid State Drive.