Everything in the OP sounds good except disk defragmenting. The performance increase is marginal if not placebo given the recent file handling methods and such a marginal increase isn't worth the cumulative stress put on the HDD imo. Obviously, any OS set to defrag in the background will stress it more and defragmenting is pointless with SSD's. I'm not too versed with why but NTFS seems to benefit less from defragmenting than FAT32. |