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Old Nov 2, 2009, 11:10 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by RejZoR View Post
Actually SSD's get fragmented just like traditional HDD's and they start to suck in performance just as well. So the myth about SSD's not losing performance when fragmentation increases just aren't true.
Well this is a quote from OCZ forum on their SSD's

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Drive Defragmentation:
DO NOT DEFRAGMENT your SSD, it is not necessary. Wear leveling technology purposely "fragments" the data to ensure the consistent life of the drive.
VISTA has an Auto defrag feature that is enabled by default (defragging is on a schedule) this should be disabled after your drive is installed.
And a quote from another source on SSD's, which can explain SSD performance loss, which is actually due to defraging.

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The SSD is silently moving data to other flash cells without Windows or anything else ever knowing. Now here comes the trick: it has to remember where all these 'mappings' correspond to. For every I/O this 'list' needs to be referenced, to see where the data really is being stored. But with defragmenting this list can grow enormously, and this starts to hamper performance.
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