No, defragging will not damage the card, but it will begin shortening life expectancy because of the repeated rewrites. Reading is faster than writing to these cards but not by much. I didn't know of such urban legends as those who know about these cards aren't susceptible to common misinformation on the internet. Using a modern motherboard will help release the speed of these kinds of drives as they eliminate bottlenecks. Andre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer
Well serves me right. I should have googled before this. There is no advantage to defragmenting a SSD (Solid State Drive, they are designed for even write operations and the access times are not influenced by the exact location of data, it takes no more or less time to read or write to any particular logical sector regardless of location. All SSDs have a theoretical number of writes so, in theory defragmenting means unnecessary writes which will reduce the number of total writes but according to my research this theoretic number is not relevant to a working computer. So, defragmenting a solid state drive is no more harmful than erasing and overwriting files on any solid state memory device. This regardless of the urban legends to the contrary. Hope this is helpful to someone else. Dale leavens. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer > Because ssd is still in its infancy and you stated you purchased one of > the > older versions, you should really read up on its limitations or you risk > damaging the SSD or at the very least shortening its life. > No, you should not defrag such a drive. In fact, if you're using Windows 7 > you should go into the disk defrag and confirm it is disabled. > Andre > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hugh" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 2:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer > > > O right just was told never to defrag one even with the program I use that > runs in the background to keep my discs defragged will not defrag that > sort > of disc it has some other option the prog is called disc keeper > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer > > I can assure you it doesn't destroy it. Not sure it does anything. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hugh" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer > > >>I have been told never never never defrag that sort of drive it will >>destroy >> it >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens >> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 7:31 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer >> >> Something which interests me is that I have a solid state drive. >> Presumably >> defragmenting it doesn't result in much by way of performance >> improvements >> but I haven't read anything on the subject. >> >> Does anyone else know? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale leavens. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Denny Huff" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 2:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer >> >> >>> Yes, it is accessible and it can be used on all platforms. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jim Syme Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 9:43 AM To: >>> [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging >>> my computer >>> Hi Denny, is this free defrag program speech accessible and can it be >>> used >> >>> with XP 32 home edition? Thanks >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Denny Huff" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 12:30 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer >>> >>> >>> Here is a free defrab utility that I believe works better than the one >>> that >>> comes with Windows. It can be set to run daily, weekly or monthly >>> automatically. >>> http://mydefrag.com/ >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Chris Feist >>> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:45 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Blind-Computing] Defragging my computer >>> >>> Hi. I've never done a defrag on my computer, and I suspect I better >>> start >>> doing so. I'm wondering, how often should one do it, and how does one >>> do >>> it? Is it easy to do without sight? I have Windows 7. Thanks. >>> >>> Chris Feist - The one and only! >>> >>> "What is the difference between the government and the Mafia? 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