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Originally Posted by grey_moon
NTFS was billed as a FS that did not require defragging, hence NT not coming with a defragging tool. Unfortunately in practice fragmentation is really bad on it and has some bad performance overheads*. It's been a while since I've read up on it so numbers and references escapes me. But the main evidence is the defrag tool makes a return in later versions of the OS.
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Hehe, one of the OS teachers at my school was discussing that one day. When it turned out that the disk did fragment, MS's response at the time was "Backup your files to tape drive, wipe the hard disk and then restore the drive from your tape backup"