My old standard HD was on its last legs, so I cloned it to a new hybrid drive without having defragged it. Windows' defrag analyzer shows that the new drive is 0% fragmented, whereas the old drive is 4% fragmented. Is there a way to defragment the new drive, or would I have to defrag the old one, and repeat the cloning process all over again? Will it seriously impact performance if I neglect to perform the defragging prior to cloning? Thanks.

How did you "clone" it? If you did a file level transfer, the file fragments would be read and written without fragmentation.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

I used a program called "XXClone" with the option "Back up the entire volume by copying all the files from scratch". I'm not sure what the technical implications of that would be, as I think the intent of the program is abstract that level of detail away from the user.

I agree with Spildit. The process of copying the files to the new drive will have put the file clusters on the drive contiguously so the drive is not fragmented.

Awesome! Thanks, everyone.