In basic terms, defragmenting is exactly what it sounds like: it's an undoing of the fact that data gets fragmented across your hard drive. We’ll explain what defragging is, the benefits, and how to do it on all the recent versions of Windows (even if you haven't upgraded to Windows 10 yet!).
Now, with modern SSHDs, the advantages of defragging are questionable and in the case of SSDs, inappropriate. Many devices that still use the older hard drives can perform defragging automatically, but it's still worth doing manually from time to time. In fact, defragmenting an SSD may actually cause it to work less effectively. HDDs have since been replaced by solid state drives (SSDs) in the majority of devices, which are able to operate much more efficiently. In the days when every PC had a hard disk drive (HDD), defragging was an crucial way to keep it in top condition.
