Seagate Firecuda SSHD DEFRAG?

[Hoveringpie]

Hi all this question has probably been posted countless times but i recently bought myself a seagate firecuda 1tb SSHD. (Hybrid drive)
Up until actually thinking about it i have been defragging it once a week but i am now wondering if it is a good idea to defrag it at all.

What happens when i defrag it does it:

-Move things from the cache back to the hard drive leaving the cache clear again

or

-Defrag just the hard drive

Im at a bit of a dead end with my knowledge on this things and google doesnt seem to want to help.

Also what are your opinions on superfetch/prefetch on these drives on or off and is it wise to disable the pagefile (i have 8gb ram it has never touched the page file)


Thanks in advance

James

[[☥] - CJ -]

Firstly
Theres no point in defragging ANY Drive Once a week, every month or 2 sure, but every week wont do any good. Defrags should really only be done after for example you install a decent sized game, after everything is defragged it wont have to be again for a while.

Secondly
Keep in mind that it only has a small SSD cache, the cache itself ONLY caches frequently used files, so defragging will have no effect on it.

superfetch/prefetch should be left on, it isnt an SSD its a HDD.
Pagefile should also be left on, especially since you only have 8GB RAM.
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I also have that drive, but i use it for storage and games

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Defragging HDD or SSHD every week will only wear it out faster, once per two months is plenty.

[Hoveringpie]

Nice one thank you both. I Guess im stuck in the ages where you needed to defrag alot.

[LiMpY]

I agree with the above sentiments. But on the other hand, there's a program called Ultimate defrag which will give you fine control of were on the HDD programs are laid out. For example, when I first got R6Seige I just let the OS install to my Steam games section. I found myself waiting for 12-17 loops of this ingame icon that spins as the levels load. By moving the game to the outside track(s) I reduced that by more than half.