Is there any benefit to defragmenting before migrating to an SSD?

Mr Davo · May 25, 2015

Hi Everyone,

I have migrated several mechanical drives across to Solid Solid State Drives. Typically I have cloned the contents of the mechanical drive to the SSD to minimize the work involved in upgrading.

I am wondering if there is any benefit in first defragmenting a mechanical drive before migrating the data on it to an SSD?

Assuming that I was using a Samsung EVO 840 drive and the Samsung Data Migration software would there be a benefit from first defragmenting the mechanical drive before copying over to the SSD?

I am going to guess that theoretically it should make no difference, but on the off chance that it may I am considering defragmenting before migrating in future.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Davo

MarkW · May 25, 2015

I'm going to offer you 3 choices:

1) No.
2) No.
3) No.

Take your choice.

fool20 · May 25, 2015

Disk defragmentation is to avoid the mechanical head from moving back & forth too much, hence prolonging it's life. SSDs have no moving head or parts. So the short answer is no.

JackNaylorPE · May 25, 2015

The short answer is no... the long answer might be more complicated....the Flash read / write portion certainly won't change but I expect that they'll be slightly more controller overhead sending an instruction to pick the file from xxxxx to yyyyy than it is if it's spread out among 54 different address ranges. Of course just because you put it there on day 1, doesn't mean it stays there.

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