Right. If it mattered that much shouldn't they have a RAM defrag tool too? I can't see the gain - especially on a typical office worker machine where they're using email, web browser, and office apps and maybe a LOB app and not much else.
"We spent $50/machine/ye (if you include the admin time to install and monitor this app, as well as outright licensing. No clue on licensing cost actually) to save 43 seconds/yr/employee waiting for their PC to retrieve data..." > Its never been a question if fragmentation happens on an SSD. It does. The > question is whether or not its worth de-fragmenting: > > > 1. Are you getting a worthwhile performance gain? > 2. Is the effort required deteriorating ROI due to user interference or > shortened MTF in a cost-prohibitive manner? > > > Everything I have read indicates that it significantly hurts the MTF, and > the performance gain is negligible. ROI of course can vary greatly > depending on what you are doing with the equipment, and what that means to > you fiscally. So, it is possible that defrag'ing an SSD is a worthwhile > investment. > > I would imagine that is something akin to the way [fraudulent] investors > short the stock market by paying for their analytical servers to be > physically closer to the Exchange's servers. Thus gaining micro-seconds > of > advantage for every trade. > > -- > Espi > > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Dave Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Truth, or salesmanship? >> http://www.condusiv.com/knowledge-center/videos/videos.aspx?index=13 >> >> I wonder if the actual productivity increase would more than pay for the >> product. >> >> Dave "skeptical" >> >> >> >> > >
