Nothinman
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It seems to help when dealing with extremely fragmented drives. My mom's computer had brutal hard drive lag until I installed Smart Defrag and had it defrag every time the computer went idle.
Solid state drives should not be defragged.
There are extreme cases where it can seem to be helpful, but with all of the other mechanisms within a modern OS for avoiding I/O latency it's difficult to pin point how much it helps. Just reading over the disk has a huge affect because of the filesystem caching and read-ahead.
Gintaras said:Defrag is needed...even today's HDD are fast, but page file gets clogged....and it's good to keep other data-files in order...
No, your pagefile doesn't get "clogged" and keeping data files in order means nothing to your software.