In principle a highly fragmented disk has less payload capacity, and will be slower to access because of all the indirect blocks.
I don't know whether that makes a real-world difference. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:06 PM, James Linder <j...@tigger.ws> wrote: > >> On 12 Oct 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org >> wrote: >> >>> random access time for a SSD is 1-3 orders of magnitude less than for a >>> rotational drive. >>> >>> As with anything, you need to measure ?real world use? to be certain, but >>> it?s probably not an issue for SSDs at all. >> >> I'm not expecting it to be in real world usage, of course. OTOH, frequent >> defragmenting is probably not a good idea on SSDs. > > Actually defrag of an SSD is a VERY BAD IDEA. It will drasically reduce the > life of your SSD, the fuller the disk the more fragmented the more it will > eat your disk. > > James > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
