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SmoothMarxApr 11th 2011 11:45AM

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Actually, what would be the point of defragging an SSD drive? I thought the memory was flash stored, therefore no needles to go about looking for the info. But I may be wrong. Anyone care to correct me on the matter?

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MxxConApr 11th 2011 11:58AM

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@__smooth__ you are absolutely correct.
SSDs work with cells/blocks and they always read and write full cell/block at a time. It doesn't matter if your file's blocks are sequential or spread all over the disk. SSD have exactly the same access time no matter which cell you try to read/write.

Furthermore, by forcing SSD to put file's block into a fixed sequence you can potentially undo SSD's wear-leveling algorithm and shorten you drive's lifespan.

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