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by justsomehnguy 1645 days ago
> defrag stopped being satisfying around the time that I got my first 50GB HDD

In the rare circumstances when I was in need of actual defrag of a heavily polluted drive > 40Gb I opted to take a filesystem aware image with Norton/Symantec Ghost and just re-image it back. Worked fine and by the time of 100-200Gb drives there were a USB HDDs so I wouldn't even need to unscrew the PC case.