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    Image of frigg frigg
    02/20/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    This doesn't sound like too hard a problem to fix. Just embed a simple algorithm to periodically defrag distributed writes. What's the biggie?
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    Someone please educate me on this, but I thought one of the advantages of having a SSD is that it doesn't suffer from fragmentation like a conventional disk drive?
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/20/09

    @Pai-Yao Eric Wang: I believe Moeyyy came the closest to answering you (yes there is still fragmenting) but left out that the big reason that SSD fragmentation wasn't supposed to be a problem is not just speed but also that a drive reading head doesn't have to zip around a spinning platter looking for the fragments, leading to errors introduced by the mechanics and timing.


    What nobody has explained here is why fragmentation is causign a performance problem when it was not supposed to be anymore.

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    02/19/09

    In reply to Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns
    Isn't this just trying to solve a problem that didn't exist in the first place?
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    02/19/09

    @baconbot: What the hell are you talking about?
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