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Old 12-06-2018, 01:58 PM   #11
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FYI... never try and defrag an SSD drive. It's 100% unnecessary due to the very different way it stores data. It will also drastically reduce the life span of the drive if you try it.

Defrag got a very undeserved reputation as being a fix all maintenance procedure back in the early Windows days. But it's the equivalent of blowing on the NES cartridge to make it work. 95% of the time it was unnecessary and did nothing to improve actual performance.
All of this. Completely unnecessary to defrag modern filesystems and will actually shorten the life of an SSD.
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