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Originally Posted by DNSB
Fragmentation is mostly an issue for hard drives with the requirement to move the heads when seeking between fragments. For a solid state memory, the effect of fragmentation is much smaller.
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This. Defragmentation is discouraged on solid state drives, as there's no seek time, which is the point defrag addresses. Besides, defrag moves (write/delete) files around, which increases wear on SSDs, which have a finite number of writes before performance degrades significantly.