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• cosmic_cheese
  I recall there being some techno-mysticism surrounding defragging regarding how often and when it was necessary, what it did and didn’t help, etc. I also remember the claim “Macs don’t need defragging” but I don’t know if HFS(+) was actually any less prone to fragmentation than FAT32 was. Companies like Symantec were happy to sell defragging tools to Mac users regardless.
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  vunderba
  When I was younger, my friends and I joked about making a "Disk Fragmenter" which would enumerate through every file on the disk and split them into non-contiguous clusters to make sure that the actuator arm on your platter-drive gets a PROPER WORKOUT TO FEEL THE BURN.
• singiamtel
  There's something satisfying about defragging that has been lost to time. Like oiling a squeaky engine
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  vessenes
  I love this. I wanted the disk noise, and I got it. I will say that’s a lot faster than my drives were in the late 1990s though.
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  Hobadee
  I love it. A couple notes: - This is about 10x a real defrag speed - WAAAY too fast - IIRC the "Data that will not be moved" was typically lumped at the beginning of the drive, not spread out all over.
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  roger_
  My computer's definitely gonna be faster after this.
• stuaxo
  It feels a little too defragmented to start.Typically it would be getting some bits from other parts of the drive and there would be a few (that many) bits it wouldn't move because they were the swap file and DOS boot system files.
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  pjot
  Will need to degauss after this
• toast0
  Love the warning for using on a mobile device.
• chasil
  Defragmenting XFS is much less dramatic.
• 3eb7988a1663
  There is even a click noise when you idly tap the screen.As great as it is, way too fast.
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  pyaamb
  Need this but for AI models. Sleep mode where they self prune and optimize overnight for their daily purpose.
• RetroTechie
  4 Drives, 5.5G total. Luxury!Per-drive individual sounds, and BSoD included. Nice touches, love it!
• retired
  This scratched an itch for me.I’m going to watch Johnny Castaway now.
• delduca
  My YouTube
• stavros
  I need to set up a Windows 95 computer with a hard drive and stream the defragging online, complete with live audio.
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  brcmthrowaway
  What were the major filesystem technology improvements that made this redundant?
• josefrichter
  bill gates, I want my time back!
• MarvinYork
  The sound killed me... :D
• wild_pointer
  Legend
• pir8life4me
  Brilliant. Whirring disk noise is nice touch.If AI generated this is what the AI revolution is all about.Can we get a cross platform screensaver?
• olivierestsage
  Hot