Quote:So you guys don't defrag? Hmmmm
I do, just not vigorously. I always reformat the entire disk before installing an OS or adding data to it so there is usually no need until the disk starts to fill up. When >75% of the space is used up is usually when I start to defrag because up until that point it doesn't make much of a difference to disk performance. And on a 1.5 TB HDD it takes a loooooonnngggg time.
Quote:Disk Defrag: Truth or Lie? It's a lie. There is no such thing as disk defragmentation. It was a conspiracy by Linux hippies to make you think Windows Vista was not the best thing ever.
That's pretty much how I interpreted the title when I first read it. Glad to know that I'm not alone.
Quote:defraggers move data around to make a big space so that the pieces can be kept together in a contiguous region
Fixed.
Quote:you can choose free/paid. personally i've used paid diskeeper. i've never heard of free ones.
Have you been living under a rock? All of the really popular ones are free. I personally use auslogics disk defragger.
Quote:but seems like i know more than you guys
Somehow I doubt that. You seem to know more than your posts initially led me to believe. The problem is (I'm sorry but there is no nice way to say this) your grammar is poor which makes it difficult for me to make sure that I'm interpreting your sentences correctly. I have not even bothered to address a few things that you have said because I'm not sure that I am correctly interpreting their intended meaning correctly.
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AnyOldName3 Wrote:Technically, it is the delete cycles it doesn't like, as a write to a completely blank location is more or less painless. It needs to put a large current through each NAND block to set it back to being just '0's for any delete, which causes the dreaded transistor decay. The problem is that any data block which has anything other than a 0 for every bit needs clearing before a write, so once the SSD has been used for a while, every write must be preceded by a delete. Other than that, what you wrote is good.
AnyOldName3 Wrote:No, Windows does do that. It's just it doesn't necessarily leave big gaps between files, which in ways, it's better to do.
Also, the whole point of TRIM is that it avoids deleting data for as long as possible, and one of the results of this is sometimes extra fragmentation. However, as the seek time on a SSD is so miniscule, you'll never notice the effects of any fragmentation, unless you still use Windows XP, which does it's utmost to destroy SSDs.
Runo Wrote:That's because few people take disk defragging that seriously, it's not like it's THAT useful... u.u
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