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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
How often do you defrag your camera's flash storage or your mp3 player? I won't argue your perceived performance increase, I'll just stress the fact that there's no quantifiable logic behind a defrag being the reason for it.
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^ This.
This type of topic is very very old and is discussed in other device forums like cameras and mp3/PMP devices.
The conventional wisdom in this case is absolutely correct, both IMO/IME.
Every device you buy has a calculated MTBF. In the cases of flash memory, AFAIK this is generally calculated using the number of read/write cycles over the lifetime of the device. Why potentially accelerate the MTBF by doing stuff like defragging which logically, for this type of medium/technology, will likely result in no objective performance gain at all?
just my 2cents...
-les