Re: Defragment flash drive on Vista


"Michael Lanier" <jamaica@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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XP allows me to defragment drives other than my hard drive. I am unable
to
find that capability on my Vista. Is it available and how would I access
it.
Thanks.

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Under any operating system, I would be reluctant to defragment any FLASH
memory drive for 2 reasons.

1. The multiple file fragment shifts that are required during any defragment
operation are going to severely tax the limited life of the FLASH memory
blocks (limited to an *average* of 1000 erase/write cycles).

2. These devices are slow enough that any speed gain is not going to be very
significant.


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