There is absolutely no benefit to defragging a flash drive because you will
gain no improvement in performance like you would when you defrag a hard
drive. This is because a flash drive uses solid state memory with no moving
parts, so files are not broken up into chunks like they are on a hard drive.
In fact, frequently defragging a flash drive can actually be detrimental
because it will add unnecessary read/write cycles that may ultimately
shorten its useful life . Do not confuse defragging with reformatting,
which has no harmful effect on a flash drive.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] formatting a flash drive
Hi
I have been in total ignorance about defragging these drives and
therefore defragged my flash drive a few times with no noticeable troubles.
The truth is they are so small that I doubt defragging them helps speed them
up. Just my thoughts.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] formatting a flash drive
Have been told never to defrag them at all will give you probs with them if
you do
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jeremy
Sent: 03 June 2009 20:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] formatting a flash drive
Not sure, I do know that from what I have read, you don't really need to
defrag flashdrives, but, as far as formatting, it's just a matter to how
much you read and write back and forth to the drive that can make it go bad.
They are supposed to have a life span of so many read/writes, but, I have
never had a flashdrive go bad yet so I can't really give any guesses to how
long that may actually be. I have actually thaught of doing linux installs
to a flashdrive and this is where I got this info.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:40 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] formatting a flash drive
I must print a retraction because my memory failed me earlier. Smart
computing mentions defragmenting a flash drive is not good for them, I do
not recall anything mentioning reformatting.
David Ferrin
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