On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:51:18 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes:
On 10/30/2018 10:27 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Grease Monkey
writes:
I have an old dell xpsl702x laptop with two 256GB ssd drives which
are full
and dell won't sell me any larger ssd drives.

Defrag has been running for almost day now.

Is it worth defragging to get space back or is defragging ssd not
going to
gain much space when it finally finishes.
With modern OSs and drive sizes, defragging doesn't recover that
much space. But the main thing is, defragging on SSD drives might
significantly reduce their life, as they have significantly fewer
write cycles than HDs. If you really want to defrag them, _move_
their contents to another drive (preferably an HD one), then move
them back: this will only involve one write (for most of their
sectors; two to their directory sectors). [Obviously if one of them
is the OS drive, you can't move all the files in this way, but it may
still be worth doing.]
It's almost certainly worth reviewing what you're storing whe do
you really have 512G of material that you want SSD-speed access to?


It's really not necessary to defrag an SSD as their seek time is so
close to Zero that not much would be gained and some life would be lost.

Rene

If you re-read Grease Monkey's post, he wasn't doing it for speed.

Right, he was doing it to regain space, which is even worse. Defragging
doesn't reclaim space.

Then, there's the whole issue of not doing it to an SSD in the first
place. Bottom line, it was a bad idea from the start.

If he's running out of space, he should either:
1. Replace one of the laptop's internal drives with a larger one. No
need to involve Dell in that decision since they use standard drives
that can be purchased anywhere. Use youtube to get the replacement
procedure.
2. Augment the internal storage capacity with an external drive.

My choice would be #1, but #2 seems to be popular around these
newsgroups.

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Char Jackson