It is useful to defragment SSDs?

Currently the Solid State Disk (Solid State Drives) are becoming common equipment such as low-cost netbooks and other devices. The advantage of low power consumption makes them representing an attractive option for manufacturers. But the main drawback, comparatively speaking, against the normal disks lies in the slow write speed and ultimately have the capacity. Although currently already under development with sizes larger than 120 GB.

Now they are becoming popular because the question is whether the defragging you can optimize or increase the response speed of the device?. The defrag, in theory, would make the content (data fields) of each file are stored closest to reduce load times and search.

But the reality is that the SSD has been designed so they can access anywhere in the disk at the same time so no need for defragging. Write data to evenly across all sectors of the unit and each sector has a certain capacity limit and scripts before but can not be overwritten. (is pointed out that theoretically will never reach that limit in a work environment average)

Doing a defrag will not damage the unit but also provides advantages in performance of the unit, but as a process not needed may cause writing process that would accelerate to reach the limit of a deed to a unit.

So do not defrag your SSD

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