> On 3 Sep 2016, at 17:50, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > 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.
That would seem to dismiss the problem, "oh, they're fragmented by design, thus it's unimportant". My understanding is that defragmenting a flash device (although I think, personally, I would only do this by deleting all the files on the drive, and copying them back) can make for faster access. • http://www.lagom.nl/misc/flash_fragmentation.html • http://www.wizcode.com/articles/comments/flash_memory_fragmentation_myths_and_facts/ Stroller.
