Comment by wcoenen
16 days ago
> But if someone ever got closer to filling up the disk in the past, the chances of contiguous gigabytes are much lower.
By default, Windows automatically defragments filesystems weekly if necessary. It can be configured in the "defragment and optimize drives" dialog.
Not 'full' de-fragmentation, Microsoft labs did a study and after 64MB slabs of contiguous files you don't gain much so they don't care about getting gigabytes fully defragmented.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100529025623/http://blogs.tech...
old article on the process