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This warning can now be downgraded from a "do not" to "there no need". It used to be that disk intensive activities such as defragging or using the SSD for swap were no-nos. But with wear-leveling any "sectors" which get a lot of use are migrated to different physical locations on the chips. So repeated writes end up wearing out all the empty space across the drive evenly. On top of that, the erase/write cycle count for any cell on SSD is now in the hundreds of thousands. The time of the old chips which died after simply hundreds of cycles is now over.

That said, because there's no physical head moving, while waiting for a particular point on the disk to come around again. There's no benefit of defragging SSD. Any sector which needs to be read can be directly addressed with only the smallest of penalty for non-sequential reads (which is almost always in effect because of the for-mentioned wear-leveling, what the OS thinks is a sequential read or write more than likely is not).

LOL @ the video

drool @ (the thought of) affordable SSD's

I'm going to have about 40 old Samsung SATA SSDs pulled from Thinkpad X300s (crapass machines, really) available to me within a few months. I'm wondering if there's a cheap way to raid those. Any ideas on cards to do it with?

Just because.

You looking to do something like this? .

I am sure this has been on here before.

Unless I'm greatly mistaken, that's the same link from the beginning of this thread.

D'oh, I haven't even looked at it. I had one of my friends send me that link awhile back.