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by ineedasername 1647 days ago
Yeah, but it's like a gambling addiction. If there are no stakes, no risk of loss? ... ... It takes the heart out of it. It's just not the same.

Maybe I should just defrag my SSD's these days. Sure they don't need it's but it's fast and bad for the drive, which gives it that same thrill of gambling with the integrity of my data. Of course I'd need to disable cloud backups to backblaze and local backups to a raid array, but if I try then I think I can still chase the thrill of the 'frag.
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rhn_mk1 1647 days ago
SSDs don't need to get defragged, but it needs occasional trimming, and that can be done either continuously, or batched. Sadly, there's no fancy graphical application to show you what was trimmed in the batched version.

If you use a filesystem with checksums, you can also scrub it. The stakes are there: is my data bit rotted? Will the errors resist recovery? It also takes about the same time as the defrag, but again I don't know of any graphical tools.

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justsomehnguy 1644 days ago
Make a 'defrag monkey' script. Take a random file, read it into the RAM, delete the source file, write it back.
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