False. Weekly or monthly is plenty. Over-defragging wears out an HDD’s mechanical parts.
Downside: Requires enough free space on another drive for the backup. Defragmentation is a vital maintenance task for traditional hard disk drives , restoring performance lost to file fragmentation. On modern Windows, it happens automatically on a schedule. On macOS/Linux, it’s rarely needed but possible. defrag hdd
sudo e4defrag /path/to/directory # or entire partition: sudo e4defrag /dev/sdX For XFS: defrag hdd