PoolBoy Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 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)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Umfriend Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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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