A moment of silence for a dead SSD!

[solomongrundy]

Is defrag even necessary these days even with mech drives? i haven't used a third party defrag since Windows XP.

I let Windows deal with it on it's own.

[bartekxx12]

Ok... there was surely something else wrong with the SSD, a defragmentation might reduce its lifetime by... a day or two out of 10s of years, it definitely shouldn't kill it. 

[bartekxx12]

Can someone please come here and tell us why you shouldn't defrag an SSD??

 

Because it doesn't improve performance but does unnecessarily use up write cycles since during defragmentation parts of files will be re-written. But again as I said before, this should not kill an SSD, and so there was definitely something else wrong with the drive. A single defrag on a 128GB drive will write... probably around 20GB max. These drives last for 100s of TeraBytes and many for multiple PetaBytes of writes before they die.

 

 

Is defrag even necessary these days even with mech drives? i haven't used a third party defrag since Windows XP.

I let Windows deal with it on it's own.

 

As long as you make sure Windows has it's scheduled by going into it's own defrag tool and making sure it does it say... once a week, then no, there is no need to do it manually. 

[Undieing_Lust]

He cryed?

[Undieing_Lust]

 

Because it doesn't improve performance but does unnecessarily use up write cycles since during defragmentation parts of files will be re-written. But again as I said before, this should not kill an SSD, and so there was definitely something else wrong with the drive. A single defrag on a 128GB drive will write... probably around 20GB max. These drives last for 100s of TeraBytes and many for multiple PetaBytes of writes before they die.

 

 

 

As long as you make sure Windows has it's scheduled by going into it's own defrag tool and making sure it does it say... once a week, then no, there is no need to do it manually. 

 

 

 

Agreed 

[mgsstar]

Thats why there's TRIM for SSDs. Learned his lesson that to never defrag a SSD. Here's a SSD optimization guide if your friend wants to optimize his next SSD: http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

[Humbug]

Something's not right here the drive should not just die like that even if You defrag it.