@JourneymanGeek Well, I did notice that the amount of time a full system backup takes has been cut in half after a defragmenting

@gparyani And you have reduced the lifetime of your disk

Should You Defrag an SSD? | Crucial.com

@DavidPostill According to Western Digital Dashboard, my life remaining never changed from 91% before and after the operation

Also, the drive is several years old

(shrug)

@DavidPostill It was 66% fragmented so the gain would have been meaningful. Plus I plan to retire the system rather soon

I heard somewhere that the act of powering an HDD off/on reduces its life, so it's good to avoid turning the computer on/off too often.

Fragmentation only affects HDDs because they use a read/write head that must move around in physical space to read magnetic data off of a spinning disk. Because of this, they gain performance benefits from sequential access. SSDs, on the other hand, are designed for random access and do not benefit from sequentially-organized data in the same way.

Confucius say, man who turns on computer will have to face wrath of horny borg

HP's now imposing Modern Standby on all their portable machines, including traditional laptops. Just bought a new 2-in-1 and am having trouble with switching it back to traditional S3 sleep (it generates a lot of heat in Modern Standby). Tried using the registry trick to do so, but once laptop goes to sleep, it doesn't want to wake up. Have to force-shutdown and start up again (thanks to hybrid sleep, it "resumes from hibernation" and keeps my prior session).

According to HP Support, it was introduced on tablets and 2-in-1s in 2018, then on traditional laptops in 2020.

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