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Is running daily defrag bad?
I heard some people say that constant defragmentation can damage a hard drive because it does a lot of read/writes.
- Is this true?
- Am I shortening the life of my drive by doing defragmentations?
- I have enable automatic defrgmentation in my Smart Defrag software. Will it do even more damage?
1Defragmentation is not an issue on SSD, it actually doesn't exist in the traditional sense, the controller decides where to place a file ( and has a reason for doing so ). – Ramhound – 2012-11-04T16:26:37.840
And regular hard drive need defragmentation becouse of physical properties. SSD doesn't have magnetic head and circle rotating magnetic plates, that are actually a reason for for defragmentation itself. – Mislav Novalić – 2012-11-04T16:47:48.917
I'm skeptical that constantly keeping the heads moving in a mechanical system would not shorten the life of the drive. Seems like common sense to me. – jjlin – 2012-11-04T18:34:01.930
I was little bit wrong in previous statment. Well I didn't explain it in a good way. Better explaination and simpler is up, above mine. Still, you can't shorten life of yours regular drive with defragmentation. – Mislav Novalić – 2012-11-04T18:43:05.973