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Defragmeting a USB drive Tristan 10-21-2006
Posted by Tristan on October 21, 2006, 6:04 am
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I have just realised that I can defragment the memory of my USB (128MB)
drive
by using the Windows XP disk defragmenter, but I am a little confused.

I do not understand if there is any real benefit doing this as I always
though that
the flash memory (USB) does not contain a hard disk with platers and the
way
Windows acces it is much different.

Anyone can explain if is there any point defragmenting a USB memory drive?

Posted by Gordon Darling on October 21, 2006, 7:47 am
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:04:20 +0100, Tristan wrote:

>
> I have just realised that I can defragment the memory of my USB (128MB)
> drive
> by using the Windows XP disk defragmenter, but I am a little confused.
>
> I do not understand if there is any real benefit doing this as I always
> though that
> the flash memory (USB) does not contain a hard disk with platers and the
> way
> Windows acces it is much different.
>
> Anyone can explain if is there any point defragmenting a USB memory drive?

No, the life of a USB flash memory drive is measured in number of writes.
If you continually defrag such a drive you will shorten its life.

Regards
Gordon


Posted by Macarro on October 24, 2006, 6:08 am
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> No, the life of a USB flash memory drive is measured in number of writes.
> If you continually defrag such a drive you will shorten its life.
>
> Regards
> Gordon
>


But does it make it quicker? Because it maybe worth it, after all you only
defrag once a month or so.

Today I have bought a Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/uk/) USB stick and
they
guarantee it will work for life, either they are liers or there is some
small letter
that I have missed.

Posted by Ken Ward on October 24, 2006, 9:27 am
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>> No, the life of a USB flash memory drive is measured in number of writes.
>> If you continually defrag such a drive you will shorten its life.
>>
>> Regards
>> Gordon
>>
>
>
>But does it make it quicker? Because it maybe worth it, after all you only
>defrag once a month or so.
>
>Today I have bought a Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/uk/) USB stick and
>they
>guarantee it will work for life, either they are liers or there is some
>small letter
>that I have missed.
It does - it works for the life of the USB stick.

Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on October 24, 2006, 11:00 pm
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Macarro wrote:

> But does it make it quicker?

No. Why it should it? Flash RAM is a random-access media that doesn't
benefit from sequential block queries.

> they guarantee it will work for life

The life of a one-day fly.

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