[PLUG] Just a question about defragmenting a windows NT SSD

[Mike Cherba]

Shudder!  The idea of defragging an SSD is just painful.  It would just
disregard all that work that went into handling wear levelling and such.
Plus, WHY?  We defrag hard drives to make them more efficient.  Properly
aligned data requires less head movement to read a file.  In a Solid state
Drive, the response time is the same no matter which cells the data is
physically stored in.  There is no actual benefit to defragging.

         -Mike


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Darren Couch <dcouch at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to superuser, the answer seems to be NAWP!
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/601129/should-i-defrag-an-ssd-drive
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> wrote:
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> > This is not Linux or UNIX, but the system is sitting next to two Linux
> > systems.  Just wondering if it is a good idea to defragment an SSD.
> >
> > Ken
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