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Yes it happens in the background, but also, people's use case for HDDs nowadays doesn't even really necessitate defragmentation in the first place.
If you aren't using your disk for your OS where frequent temp writes etc are occurring, there is minimal opportunity for it to become fragmented, and if you aren't gaming, you aren't going to notice any performance hit associated with a minimally fragmented HDD