SSD & defrag?

[othertomperson]

You CAN defrag an SSD, but you'll see 0 performance increase.

SSD these days, especially if you have the durable kind (identifiable by their 5+ year warranty), will take a nice beating before even being a concern down 7 years line.

But there is just no point in doing so, as I mentioned, 0 performance increase.

 

This is true. One defrag won't shorten the life of an SSD by much, but it's better to not shorten the life at all if you can help it. It's just an unnecessary use of something that is finite, if very large. I still highly recommend NOT doing it.

[Akolyte]

Actually, according to someone from Microsoft (forgot name ) who wrote a blog post after talking to people at Microsoft in the specific areas.   Because Windows 8.1 automatically Defrags SSDs once a month when System Restore is enabled.  

 

Apparently this is because SSDs do get fragmented and can get to a point they get extremerly slow and unreliable if fragmented too much,  I have no real problem with it as I let Windows 8.1 do what it wants because I know its not a bug.  

 

So maybe defrag your ssd every couple months if your feeling adventurious or just disable the ssd from the automatic schedule in Windows Disk Defragmet, or "defragment and optimize disks" in Windows 8 and above. 

 

However please do note that I do not recommend defragmenting your ssd in anyway and am not saying that, I'm an simply saying its a possibility. 

[othertomperson]

Actually, according to someone from Microsoft (forgot name ) who wrote a blog post after talking to people at Microsoft in the specific areas.   Because Windows 8.1 automatically Defrags SSDs once a month when System Restore is enabled.  

 

Apparently this is because SSDs do get fragmented and can get to a point they get extremerly slow and unreliable if fragmented too much,  I have no real problem with it as I let Windows 8.1 do what it wants because I know its not a bug.  

 

So maybe defrag your ssd every couple months if your feeling adventurious or just disable the ssd from the automatic schedule in Windows Disk Defragmet, or "defragment and optimize disks" in Windows 8 and above. 

 

However please do note that I do not recommend defragmenting your ssd in anyway and am not saying that, I'm an simply saying its a possibility. 

 

SSDs get fragmented as much as HDDs do. The point is that HDDs have much faster sequential read-write speeds than their random read-write speeds, which makes fragmentation slow down performance of the disk. To an SSD it makes no difference whether or not you're looking at sequential or random reads because they work in a fundamentally different way. There isn't a head that has to physically move to where the data is stored.

 

They get fragmented, but fragmentation doesn't impact performance.