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@NoNameCode What do you mean SSDs don't fragment?
1) yes they do, just like any performance storage medium, the data is written where the free space is and it likely isn't contiguous.
2) SSDs shuffle data around all the time transparently to the OS. Even if you do defragment it, it would likely be just as fragmented as when you started making it pointless. -
@NoNameCode @drRoss it's not an SSD, rather a very old rickety little box that used to run Vista in its days 😁
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@NoNameCode They're typically much more fragmented because the SSD's controller has no idea what data is a single file or whatever. But the seek times are basically instant in comparison to the head of an HDD, so your file could be split into a thousand pieces and still read faster on the SSD.
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@NoNameCode They're typically much more fragmented because the SSD's controller has no idea what data is a single file or whatever. But the seek times are basically instant in comparison to the head of an HDD, so your file could be split into a thousand pieces and still read faster on the SSD.
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dfox426038y@skonteam yeah, we have it on our list to do something like that for rants and comments.
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Anyhow, turns out it was the Windows MFT placed near the end of the partition that prevented further defragging.. Using Contig and then PerfectDisk to forcefully put all data in contiguous sectors did it for me :)
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sometimes I try to clear my cache and end up with more cache than I started with
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