The drive can simply read the data from whatever sectors it resides in. On a solid-state drive, there’s no mechanical movement. If a file’s data is spread out over the drive, the head will have to move around to read all the little pieces of the file, and this will take longer than reading the data from a single location on the drive. On a mechanical hard drive, defragmenting is beneficial because the drive’s head has to move over the magnetic platter to read the data. ![]() ![]() What’s more, you won’t see any speed improvements from defragmenting. The storage sectors on an SSD have a limited number of writes - often fewer writes on cheaper drives - and defragmenting will result in many more writes as your defragmenter moves files around. ![]() You shouldn’t defragment solid-state drives.
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