Is defragging relevant to improving disk performance anymore?

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Published on 2009-07-15T23:20:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 13:11 UTC
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Does it stil make much difference, now that we have much faster and larger HDDs? Generally I find if disk performance is getting too slow, it's probably because of too little free space, and the solution is to buy a new HDD.

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