SSD and Defrag.

[NoM8s]

Just a quicky,

Any thoughts on if its necessary or harmful to defrag SSDs.

Cheers

NoM8s

 

[slayer202]

I believe it is bad. no idea why though

 

[Elcs]

Do I need to defragment my Intel® Mainstream Solid-State Drives (using Windows* Disk Defragmenter* or similar program)?
No. SSD devices, unlike traditional HDDs, see no performance benefit from traditional HDD defragmentation tools. Using these tools simply adds unnecessary wear to the SSD. It is recommended that you disable any automatic or scheduled defragmentation utilities for your Intel SSD.

http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-029623.htm

 

[Nothinman]

Just a quicky,

Any thoughts on if its necessary or harmful to defrag SSDs.

Cheers

NoM8s

Defragging regular drives is largely pointless, doing it for an SSD which has virtually 0ms seek times makes even less sense.

 

[Voo]

Defragging regular drives is largely pointless, doing it for an SSD which has virtually 0ms seek times makes even less sense.

And uses up some of the already limited write cycles of the flash..

 

[NoM8s]

Thanks for the input, you have confirmed my thoughts.

Cheers

NoM8s

 

[Matt84]

You can do it but it will do nothing to your performance and just use up your flash write cycles

 

[KenAF]

As indicated above, defragging does nothing for SSD performance and will use up flash write cycles (which are finite).

 

[Yellowbeard]

Additionally, if you are defragging and writing to previously unwritten blocks, and freeing up other previously written blocks, you are placing additional demands on your garbage collection or TRIM functions while also potentially contributing to the slowing of drive performance.

 

[taltamir]

defragging a regular harddrive is a worthless placebo that you shouldn't bother with.
defragging an SSD HARMS them.