<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">On a direct access drive such as compact flash or SSD fragmentation is not relevant as there is no real seek time like there is on a conventional spinning platter drive. and in the case of flahs and SSD media can dramatically reduce the life of the drive. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Some addditional reading:</div><div class="gmail_default" style>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001064.htm">http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001064.htm</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/03/should-you-defragment-a-ssd/">http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/03/should-you-defragment-a-ssd/</a><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Harold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iscreamkid@gmail.com" target="_blank">iscreamkid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Fragmentation is a function of the
characteristics of the operating system.<br>
I can't see how a difference in the media will affect it one way
or the other.<br>
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On the other hand, solid state drives sometimes have a setup that
writes to different portions of the media when it is writing.<br>
This spreads the writes around to different portions of the device
so the wear is not all in the same spot.<br>
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Harold<div class=""><br>
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On 05/25/2014 05:40 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Is this something we need to be concerned about if
we format the drive FAT or NTFS?<br clear="all">
<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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