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ssd defrag
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.] Has it gotten to the point now that SSDs are considered to be just as reliable, long term, as the standard hard drives, even with all the consequent writes and rewrites (also potentially limiting the SSDs "longevity")? (I mean when used as your main drive)? But maybe SSDs still haven't been out quite long enough to yet assess their long term reliability and longevity. |
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