Is it bad to defragment a USB Flash Drive?
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If I defragment my 8 GB Kingston flash drive, will it decrease its lifetime?
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You should not defrag flash media. First off, there is no benefit. Defragging a traditional magnetic hard drive is beneficial as the actuator arm has to move the heads around the platter to find the data. Defragmenting orders the data on the hard dr…
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