On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote: > > You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You > might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write > few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices don't like to be written to > many many times (such as a busy *primary* FS). They have a limited > shelf-life of writes )wear leveling) before they go bad (I have an OCZ ATV > rubber thumb drive that has suffered this.) This is why they tell you > defragmenting SSD's is a *VERY* bad idea, you significantly reduce the write > ability of the device.[4][5][6]
Defragmenting SSDs should also be unnecessary, since there are no heads to move to other regions ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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