Quote:The main con is that if it's done on a SSD, then it won't do it any good, as SSDs don't like data being deleted from them.
^What he meant to say: SSDs slowly wear down over time (technically so do HDDs) and have a limited number of write cycles. The remaining lifespan on a HDDs l is dependent on a number of factors only one of which is activity level whereas the remaining lifespan of an SSD is almost entirely dependent on the level of activity (write cycles in particular). Regular defragging eats up a lot of write cycles and can slightly degrade the lifespan of a HDD and significantly degrade the lifespan of an SSD. Since SSDs have extremely low seek times/access latency they don't require defragging to keep them down and so defragging them is often seen as a pointless waste of write cycles (since it doesn't significantly improve performance on an SSD, whereas on a HDD it does.
Sorry to correct you but "don't like data being deleted from them" doesn't exactly explain the situation and also isn't technically true. Any type of write activity degrades the memory cells, not just deleting. And in this case we're talking about move operations.
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-Mark Antony