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.

Some addditional reading:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001064.htm

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/03/should-you-defragment-a-ssd/

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Harold <iscreamkid@gmail.com> wrote:

Fragmentation is a function of the characteristics of the operating system.
I can't see how a difference in the media will affect it one way or the other.

On the other hand, solid state drives sometimes have a setup that writes to different portions of the media when it is writing.
This spreads the writes around to different portions of the device so the wear is not all in the same spot.

Harold

On 05/25/2014 05:40 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
Is this something we need to be concerned about if we format the drive FAT or NTFS?

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