My understanding from my grandson was that solid state drives were faster.
Remember, life is what you make it,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <pipeguy...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] defragment ssd
tRick is right, he old theory is you don't defrag a solid-state drive.
Since they are solid-state--just like memory in a computer or an SD
card--by definition, all the data lies contiguously with each other.
Therefore, there is no need and can only result in harm in defraging a
solidstate drive.
But, there is a type of defrag done by Windows 7 and 8 as well, which is
an intelligent hard-drive defrag if you have system restore running. It
is part of the functionality of volume shadowing; there is a lot of
metadata that the SSD must store for file management and more metadata
means slower read/write performance. From what I understand, when data is
deleted, there are trim commands that are stored because a solid-state
drive has to copy the data elsewhere before writing to that NAND cell.
The basic recommendation on sites like HowToGeek is to avoid programs that
claim to have algarithms for defragging solid-state drives as they are
unnecessary and tne type of trimming and defragging is handled by the
operating system.
in Windows 7 and 8
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Justice
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Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] defragment ssd
Hi Kevin,
Actually, there seems to be some debate over whether they should be
defragged or not,
so I'll just say, in my opinion, I don't defrag SSD's
because that creates a lot of unnecessary writes to the drive, which in
turn shortens the overall life of the drive.
And the way the data is written to the drive, it doesn't seem to result in
any real benefit.
Yes, a flash drive is solid state, but some computers, especially the old
net books can have solid-state drives containing the operating system.
HTH,
Rick Justice
Tomorrow's another day, another way!
and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Lee" <klee...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] defragment ssd
but as I stated in the new version of auslogics disc defrag there is a
selection to defrag them
I guess a ssd is a flash drive!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Justice
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 4:49 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] defragment ssd
Hi Kevin,
"SSD", solid-state drive.
You do not defrag these.
Defragging is for mechanical drives only.
HTH,
Rick Justice
Tomorrow's another day, another way!
and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Lee" <klee...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 5:40 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] defragment ssd
I downloaded the new version of auslogics disc defrag and noticed a new
entry in the defrag list.
what am I doing when I defragment ssd?
Email is golden!!!
Kevin Lee
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