On Saturday 03 Sep 2016 16:39:03 Stroller wrote: > > On 2 Sep 2016, at 23:03, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > … a potentially more effective defrag method irrespective of fs > > (we're talking about spinning disks where this issue applies) i > > I understood that fragmentation can also occur on flash-based disks. > > Although the effect of it is not so noticeable, I understood that it still > has one. > > Stroller.
Yes, flash drives (unlike spinning drivers) are completely digital. In addition, wear levelling algorithms invariably kick in and bits and bytes are sprayed all over the pages/modules of the memory chips. So you could say they are fragmented by design. -- Regards, Mick
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