i miss the win95/98 defragmentation programm, it was so relaxing to watch the blocks moving

I've been doing IT for years and I love watching these videos, sometimes just to recap what I know, or occasionally I'll find out things I didn't know.

Just saying I have Windows 7 and it lets me De-fragment my SSD.

2:41 Almost said the wrong word, eh?

In my experience defragging HDDs very often will cause them to fail sooner. They have to defrag for hours most of the times, with constant writes and reads that will cause too much heat and physical wear on mechanical components because of that intense work that lasts for hours non-stop. I'm not saying defragmentation is a bad thing, it actually improves the disk performance but at the cost of putting the hard drive to a lot of stress without a single pause.

Almost 8 years later since this video was released and Half Life 3 still hasn't been released

2:39 "Trying to defragment an SSD can do more...g (Brain: NOT GOOD IDIOT! YOU MEAN HARM!!!).. harm than good" :-) LOL!

Next Episode: Advantages of UEFI over old BIOS I know this can be found by simple google-ing, but I think it would be nice to have a FAP-episode for better understanding.

Dude, I love your channel. Im fairly new to IT and your channel explains everyday tech related things so clearly in such a short time. Please never stop making these.

Thanks Linus, I'm off to defragment my HDD now!

Turn on automatic Captions, skip to 1:12 and laugh your ass off

Used this for my GCSE revision

This was a lot of complex information laid out very quickly which for me made it a little difficult to wrap my head around. So I watched it again to let the information sink in. Being that I am not the most tech savvy person I never knew to defrag my hard drive to make my system run better. Thank you for explaining how the hard drive works and how defragmentation will help.

Thanks Linus I was so confused about Disk Fragmentation and Partitioning in my ICT text book lol and your videos cleared it up! Thanks a ton man

watch this on 2022 and Half Life 3 still not coming out

The chroma keying in the last few episodes has been nearly perfect gj LMG.

Finally, the best explanation out there. Thank you linus

I think that you covered most of windows but you should make a small comment or annotation saying that both OSX (HFS+) and Linux (Usually ext3 or ext 4) do not suffer from fragmentation due to their better file systems. In fact have you done a tech quickie on file systems? That's a good idea

I once read a great analogy for this topic: Think of your hard drive like a house, and the files that you store are the things in that house. Naturally you would keep all the food in the fridge, clothes in the closet, bed in your room, etc. However, if you were to start putting things in random places, like, putting some food under the bathroom sink, then some more food on a shoe rack, and maybe a phone charger in the fridge... getting stuff done efficiently would be nearly impossible. Defregging basically reorganizes everything in a logical way so that you end up with a nice, neat, tidy, and efficient house. And really, that's pretty much the gist of what defragging does for a hard drive.

FINALLY.... my teacher has started showing father linus in our Comp sci lessons...... my dreams have come true...

*Realizing from the ending that Linus may not be appreciated enough* Thank you Linus for the awesome leadership in your company and always coming out with great content!! Lol

tech quickie on NTFS, ext4, MacOS extended (Journaled)

I love this as fast as possible episode! :D I liked the loading bar style of the sponsor, but overall this episode has much lesser graphical and text popups than the usual. Which is kinda like the signature of techquickie :O 10/10

Thanks for supporting the channel Linus.

I think this sort of defragmentation program should exist: A defrag program that allows you to make groups of files and put those files in the same place (physically) on the drive when you defrag and (just as a little cherry on top) a function that can monitor what files open when you launch an application and group them for you (you will have to tell it to start and stop monitoring manually). It should also allow you to prioritise file and the higher priority a file is, the more likely it is to go on a spot on the drive that can be accessed faster (on the outermost parts of the drive). If a defragmentation program exists that does these things (or at least the first thing) please let me know.

2:42 Awwh old Linus trying so hard 4:42 And throwing a fit as well, awwh

I really like this Channel. Really goes in depth but Not overly complicated. It makes it easy to understand with the metaphors especially.

This is the most concise explanation-video I've seen in resent years. Thank you "ancient" video!! Very informative and educational.

Can you defrag a floppy?

This is the very well explained using a layman's term. Thank you. 👍

... That thank-you-note at the end was so original that I've decided to subscribe. Thanks Linus!

this helped me for my previous exam and now again helping me for this exams. thank you

Windows 7 does actually let you defrag an SSD, it won't do it automatically but it will let you do it manually. Windows 8 and higher doesn't do it automatically and won't even let you do it manually. And You really don't need to defrag that often, about once a month. Modern drives and filesystems aren't affected by fragmentation as much as they used to be and defragging a HDD too often can wear out the drive.

I just about died at that, it can actually do more g------harm then good XD XD XD as always, love the video Linus!

I love this guy he explains everything so well

Very clear explanation. Defragmenting hard drive now.

Beardless Linus jumpscare (I’m here cause of the windows 95 video lmao)

i love how linus stuttered on "Defragging an SSD can do more g- harm!"

Thank you ! Better than my college teacher.

Since I'm the PC emergency for my family I always explained defragmentation as sorting out a messy drawer, putting everything nicely in order so it's easier to find.

Explained great.Thank you

If you're running versions of Linux other than Debian 8 or Ubuntu 14.04 you need cron a trim. The os doesn't do it itself

7 years later linus is still helping me

I love your videos, you've covered so much information you've given me the confidence to change my graphics card, add an m.2 drive, install Windows 10 and add a new ssd. Before i wouldn't even take the case apart incase i broke something. Now i know how to look after my sshd as well 👌

Does defragmentation deteriorate the hard drive?...as in, you only want to do it occasionally and maybe not on a daily basis

1:10 "How much you love Gay Ben."

Thanks Linus and the hole crew for videos hope you keep give us the information about pc's, CES, fast as possible and many more so continue to make awesome videos in the future.

Very well explained Linus, i go to school for IT and you are helping me out alot :D

I just defragmented my hdd for the first time in 2 yeara it was like 50% fragmented and took 2 hours

what about defragmenting SSHDs

Thanks for simplifying one more explanation for my friends 😃

I want to thank linus media group for all these amazing videos because i have learned a lot from here. Please do not stop making them. Much much regards - Bharat. I m more confident with regards to technical know how after watching these videos.

SSD user, stopped caring about this a long time ago :)

Linus: "Imagine a 3 way..." Me: "Oh goodness, where's he going with this one? lol" Linus: "You know what, I'm just going to quit while I'm ahead..." Laughs were had. :p

Your the best! Any time I have computer issues, you are always the one that that solves my prob.

Helped me in 2021🙃thanks again Linus

Great video Linus! but what tool should I use to defragment my hard drive, is Windows disk defragmenter okay? or should I use some other 3d party app?

I'm a Windows person and the file system Windows uses is just crap. File systems used by Macs and most Linux distros are so good you don't need to defrag! But it makes me wonder how hard is it for Microsoft to use or make a better file system? A quick Google doesn't tell.

“Say, you… don’t want to play minesweeper anymore” he says LMAO

Techquickie could you do a video on how to install/utilize Trim on an external SSD using Mac OSX?

I spot a wild Linus wearing an LG G Watch R

I am on ext4 on Linux on a SSD. Yea. I will never defragment.

Great videos! One of the only KZfaq channels that explain shit like this extremely clearly and well! Liked+Subscribed!

We live in a world where no one really has to know anything in particular. You can work at a job and make a lot of money just as long as you have a diploma indicating you succeeded in learning just enough to pass the tests. You don't need to know what defrag is or anything else for that matter to run that spreadsheet on your computer. All you need to know is where the icon is on the desktop and where to save the file you just created. I recently bought a Prius. People asked me questions like, "How do you charge the batteries?". "You don't have to buy gas anymore. That's awesome." That car has been around since 1997 and no one took the time to even consider what a hybrid meant for even a second. There's people who don't know why you shouldn't turn on the AC as well as open the windows in your car or home. The AC makes things cold, right? Once knew a guy who was in university. He was complaining that his PC was running slow after installing a videogame. I told him to run defrag. He told me a university friend told him that doing that would ruin the hard drive. He believed his university friend over me because he was in university and I wasn't at the time. Guess what? That guy makes a ton of money even though he knows just enough to look like he knows what he's doing. When someone doesn't know something I consider to be common knowledge, I wonder what else they don't know. But then again, no one needs to know how FM stereo works to listen to their favourite station. No one needs to know how to change their oil. No one needs to know how to make bread. How to ride a horse. Dig a well. Hell, people don't need to know where their food comes from. I've seen in greater numbers in the last few years people who ONLY now found out that animals need to be raised and killed to become our food. And their horrified that the poor cow had to die. When before that ignorance was bliss for them. This defrag question has been doing the rounds for so many years. It's amazing. Millions upon millions of people who wonder what the heck defrag is. And yet they're totally fine not knowing how the magical black box works that gives them the facebook and the youtube. It's okay for my mother to not know how computers work because she has better things to worry about. BUT there's people who have used computers for most of their lives who simply have no idea and have no interest in knowing in the slightest. It's those people whom one helps and then they blame YOU because you offered to correct something they messed up and then a month goes by and now their computer stopped working and it must have been something YOU did. It definitely wasn't them with their malware infested computer that was the problem at all. Ignorance is bliss.

what about an sshd?

Multi-boot as fast as possible.

I can't remember the last time I defragged my hard drives and honestly with the size of the current drives no way am I going to wait on that to be done.

Love your videos, nice reprieve from text book reading.

Well this is dumb, Windows 7 defragmentation is showing that my SSD is being indentified as a HDD as it's showing me a defragmentation option instead of a optimized option. How do I fix this?

"or how much you love gay ben" ;D

Thanks for sharing this, it was a really easy way to understand what defrag actually does!

Linus, thanks for supporting the channel. ♥

You should always run spinrite on your drive. At least once a year, minimum. It fixes a ton of issues with your hard drive (mechanical and SSD), including repairing issues that could, in the future, spread and kill the drive. Spinrite will fix any fixable problem with your hard drive. If your drive is dead/dying, run spinrite and recover your data. Just bought a brand new drive? Run spinrite on it and see if it is healthy. In fact, you can buy 3 hard drives, run spinrite on each, pick the healthiest drive, and return the other 2 and get your money back. This way you know your brand new drive is perfectly happy and healthy. Nothing sucks more than buying a brand new drive only to have it randomly die a month later because it had some hidden faults. Spinrite is the best.

Is it me, or does he really have kind of...too orange.. palms ?

My grandparents have a computer with a SSD. I asked them what they do in terms of optimization they said "usually every 2 weeks or so, I defrag the drive" this is why I'm here.

"Drop the bass as fast as possible" :D (i think, it would be a good episode!)

@1:10 "a filmed speech about how much you love gay men" ! WTF Linus?! lol next video is about how to convert a floppy drive to a hard drive using only speeches about how you love gay men. :-)

I thought he said “like maybe a.. filmed speech about how much you love gay men.”😆

your performance is stunned....👍👍 and thanks for the information.

man you know uplink explains this super well.

SSD + Linux = No defrags YAY

windows 10 defrags your drive weekly automatically o-o

Love your videos mate. Keep them coming... You remind me of my cousin. He only wears the same cut off t-shirt and has bought loads of them...

«Digital 15 puzzle» Great video, Linus, always very funny and informational! xD

Anyone here 5 years later still waiting for half life 3 xD

Half life 3 has been confirmed, me: still stuck on HL2 loading screen

Thanks for the explanation, defragmenting really makes sense to me now! I just hope if fixes my laptop, my stupid Intel core i3 hp pavilion x360 that takes about 6 mins to boot up and literally can't do anything at all, I'm about to throw it in the bin.

I just sat through the entire ad so Linus will get the ad revenue. Love his videos

Half life 3 confirmed! Linus said it, you all heard it.

You can defrag your hard drive by using Command Prompt.... follow the steps below to defragment your hard disk 1. Go to Start Menu, then type cmd 2. Now right click on cmd then click on Run as Administrator 3. Now type defrag c: and then hit Enter The process will take some time depending on your hard drive size and speed of your PC.

very informative and not boring at all.

I just stumbled across this video and I remembered watching it in high school in my computer science class 😂. I didn't even know what LTT was at the time lmao

This was a GREAT simple and informative explaination ty VERY much dude. When I have asked friends about this in the past they either have no clue or gave some convoluted explaination for it. I have an SSD so I wont touch it buts till good to know. U got a new subber

what i love about my life now is that i'm doing an A-Level computer science course so now i'm not watching these videos to procrastinate

I know what is defragment from a long time but I always have a problem explain it this video explain it in a way a baby can understand it . big thanks I really love your channel (:

Really nice video guys ! LOVE YOUR WORK !!! KEEP IT UP ;)

Actually.... when it comes to whether to defrag SSD or not, the answer is somewhere in between. There was an article on Scott Hansleman blog a while back, discussing the very topic with Microsoft engineers. The gist of it is that SSDs do get slower with fragmentation, but not as badly as platter drives. And it's particularly slow making shadow copies of fragmented files, so Windows does defrag once a month IF restore feature is enabled.

Unless we are talking about the O/S disk - fastes way to defrag is a simple file copy to an empty drive of equal size.

Watching your Net neutrality video just when I saw this was uploaded. Thanks!

Thank you Linus! This show couldn't happen without you! Much like a three-way without the second person, huh? xD