Defragging and SSD Drives.

[Copyright]

I've read and know not to defrag my SSD drives but I have started reading of programs that are made for defragging SSD Drives. Is this even possible or does it even help? Seems like the access point no matter where on the drive is always .1ms. Just curious about this.

 

[Copyright]

Or has anyone played with this?

http://www.diskeeper.com/hyperfast/index.aspx

 

[Griff805]

"HyperFast is a great solution for most SSDs. The Intel X25 is the only SSD to date, that we know from testing does not benefit from NTFS free space consolidation - for the reasons you covered early in your article. We work closely with Intel and know these drives well.

It's important to note that you won't see dramatic differences optimizing an out-of-the-box SSD with HyperFast, for the same reason you wouldn't see huge differences defragmenting a relatively unused HDD. The key to HyperFast is fixing the fragmentation of free space (in the file system not in the SSD itself -btw) that naturally occurs over time, especially when an SSD is used as the system partition. In the case of the metrics we provide on the website and in papers, the test case was a Vista system after about 6 months of normal use. The results published in the OCZ forum did note improvements, and their results would be proportionate with the free space fragmentation levels in those tests. If they only started with a small amount of free space fragmentation they'd only get a small performance gain.

PS: The gouge was a recommendation, re-published (by a poster), that was initially provided by a Tech Support rep prior to the release of the new SSD-aware products (which includes HyperFast), and well prior to the X25.

-Michael Materie
Diskeeper Corporation"

This is in a thread over on the PC Perspective forums-

 

[Copyright]

Thx for the info. Guess I don't need to worry about it with the intel drives.