PoolBoy 0 Posted February 1 Is it needed/beneficial to defrag SSDs? Is defrag part of wear levelling? Does defrag work but due to extremely low access/seek times, it does'n provide a noticeble speed increase (but uses up TBW)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Umfriend 84 Posted February 1 lmgtfy: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047513/fragging-wonderful-the-truth-about-defragging-your-ssd.html?page=2 https://www.pcgamer.com/should-i-defrag-my-ssd/ TL;DR - No. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 576 Posted February 12 Yeah, no, it's not needed, and may actually reduce the longevity. The main reason to defrag files on a hard drive, is so that the data is more sequential. This means less travel for the read heads in the drive. Which means faster access times. Since an SSD is all NAND flash, it's all pretty fast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Is it needed/beneficial to defrag SSDs?
Is defrag part of wear levelling?
Does defrag work but due to extremely low access/seek times, it does'n provide a noticeble speed increase (but uses up TBW)?
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