Does archiving files and directories into ZIP or RAR enhance defragmentation?

Asked by orinok (14

) October 17th, 2009

Since I backup lots of directories with lots of files and other directories inside, I was wondering:
is it better to archive each root directory into a single ZIP or RAR file (and then delete the original directories and files) for the sake of defragmentation performance?

Thank you helpers!!!

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No because writing and deleting files is what causes fragmentation. Especially writing such large files to an already fragmented disk. Just get Diskeeper and let it run in the background. It’s a very small resource hit, and you don’t have to do any tricks, or remember everything. My disks are never fragmented when I check them.

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