Solid State Drives-(Updated. 11/20)
I hope someone knows about this... :h So, I bought a Sony ultrabook bout 17 months ago. Great specs, I7 processor, 8G ram, 256G SSdrive. Had it up to Windows 8.1 and I love the computer and W8. OK...
Forum Discussion
ReadyToGo wrote:
First of all, I hope you never did a defrag on the SSD as you should never do that ever.
Info on SSD reliability is as good as regular hard drives. You might be one of the 2 percenters that went bad.
I would hope there was an extra hard drive in the laptop. That is where the info needed to reinstall the OS is kept or should be and be a place to keep your data/picture files.
I would have liked to seen the warranty for the SSD. It should be about 5 years or more.
Defragging an SSD won't harm it, it's just that it's a complete waste of time. In order to ensure that writes are spread around so that some cells are not written to more often then others, the software does "wear leveling" which randomizes where writes take place in order to use all the cells of the ssd as evenly as possible. Defragging attempts to place all the parts of a file in a contiguous arrangement which cannot happen in an ssd.
