is necessary to defrag games ( hdd with foloder games )

[Rc - |1402|Razvan]

is necessary to defrag games ? ,,,,,,,,, and does it affect your gaming performance ?

[VMC Director N. M. Eternal]

Defragging your HDD is recommended to do regularly for PC, reguardless if you are gaming or not. Unless you are running a pure SSD setup.. which you shouldn't bother defragging.

[Rc - |1402|Razvan]

but 57 gb black ops 3 is very very hard from my to defrag 57 gb pffff
all files on Steam folder are so so so so fragmented

[OzyMan👽]

only in a month one time is recommended or you will shorten your had disk life
If fact, it is believed, that defragmenting your disk too often may have counterproductive results and even damage it in the long run.

Not to mention that in the recent years defrag has been slowly losing the big impact it had on performance. Drives are bigger, more, and it is mostly unnecessary to defrag them unless they are nearly full, which happens less often than it did before.