09-16-2018 , 02:55 PM
I've never really seen any significant speedup by using a defrag program, neither the built in windows tool nor any third party tool. However, I tend to reinstall my entire system at least once a year, sometimes even more regulary, so that's some kind of "defrag" as well... When comparing third party tools to the built in there were no significant differences in the result - the gui is sometimes more sometimes less interesting/informative, but if really needed, the Windows builtin defrag does a pretty decent job.
However, all this is only true for classical harddrives, on a solid state drive (or usb-stick/...), defrag should definately be avoided as it significantly lowers the drives livetime and doesn't give any speed improvement at all.
However, all this is only true for classical harddrives, on a solid state drive (or usb-stick/...), defrag should definately be avoided as it significantly lowers the drives livetime and doesn't give any speed improvement at all.