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On 29 Feb 2016 14:39, "T Menezes" <<a href="mailto:tm.onthemove@gmail.com">tm.onthemove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> I have recently upgraded my laptop with an SSD - Crucial MX200 500GB SATA, CT500MX200SSD1.<br>
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> For work reasons I have to dual-boot the laptop between Ubuntu Mate & Windows 7. What is the current view regarding management & defragmenting the SSD?<br>
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> Crucial claims the MX200 is capable of an enormous amount of writes before folding over so I suppose defraging is not an issue. Is there actually any benefit of defragmenting the hard drive (in Windows)?<br>
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> Thanks<br>
> TM<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I pressed send too early, I found this:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/601129/should-i-defrag-an-ssd-drive">http://superuser.com/questions/601129/should-i-defrag-an-ssd-drive</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Which has another great point. An SSD has no seek time so there would be no benefit having the data blocks in other locations.</p>