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Old Jul 31, 2013 | 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
Thanks Zarf4, but I'm not totally convinced. The article you linked describes Intel SSD's, but I wonder if Samsung SSD's behave the same? Or if the Thinkpad already had some advanced disk management installed?

Because my disk is only 60GB, and it has been mostly full its entire life. Often over 90%. And I've added and deleted many large movie files, and many thousands of small files over the years. I'm sure if the behavior you describe existed I would have seen a problem long ago. Not to mention the 2 or 3 dozen times I have defragged! That should have also seriously caused some problems if this behavior existed. There must be some mitigating factor which is keeping my SSD humming along.
All SSDs use the same kind of flash memory. So the behavior is the same for them all.

I think the number of writes before failure is significantly higher than Zarf says - more like 100,000 is what I've heard. Still, as he said, it will work fine until it suddenly stops.

Defragging will not have ANY impact on drive speed for an SSD. Any perceived impact is entirely in your head.
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