Do I need to defragment my Intel® Mainstream Solid-State Drives (using Windows* Disk Defragmenter* or similar program)?
No. SSD devices, unlike traditional HDDs, see no performance benefit from traditional HDD defragmentation tools. Using these tools simply adds unnecessary wear to the SSD. It is recommended that you disable any automatic or scheduled defragmentation utilities for your Intel SSD.
Just a quicky,
Any thoughts on if its necessary or harmful to defrag SSDs.
Cheers
NoM8s
And uses up some of the already limited write cycles of the flash..Defragging regular drives is largely pointless, doing it for an SSD which has virtually 0ms seek times makes even less sense.