I got an SSD a couple of months ago and knew that defragging it was worse that cereal without milk. I double checked that windows would automatically defrag it and it said it would "never run". Recently however disk defragmenter said that it was fragmented 11%....... should i be worried??
SSD fragmented "11%"
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airplanegeek
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mouse24
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Fragmentation only affect spinning disks. Due to the fact that fragmentation puts files all over the place so it wears down the drive head making it search for each individual piece of the file. This doesn't affect SSDs since all it is, is flash chips, no spinning head or mechanical parts to get worn down. Thus making "seek" time nonexistant.
(seek time refers to how long the drive has to look for the file, more specifically in our case, the fragmented file parts)
Plus defragging an SSD wears it down since it has to read/write every fragmented file thus shortening the lifespan of the flash chips. But with modern SSDs its not a HUGE deal if you accidentally defrag.
(seek time refers to how long the drive has to look for the file, more specifically in our case, the fragmented file parts)
Plus defragging an SSD wears it down since it has to read/write every fragmented file thus shortening the lifespan of the flash chips. But with modern SSDs its not a HUGE deal if you accidentally defrag.
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Defrag improves a hard drive by consolidating file segments to reduce seek or latency time. A ssd has no such time so defrag is not of any value.
Windows should deactivate defrag once it knows you have a ssd. It knows only by how fast a device is.
Rerun your windows experient index to be certain that windows knows you have a ssd.
Windows should deactivate defrag once it knows you have a ssd. It knows only by how fast a device is.
Rerun your windows experient index to be certain that windows knows you have a ssd.
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