SSD and Defrag

[vmachiel]

Hi Forum,

I put an SSD in my Macbook Pro, and someone told me I should disable disk defragmentation. So does anyone know if I should do this, how to do this and if there are negative side effects?

Thank you very much!

 

[gnasher729]

Hi Forum,

I put an SSD in my Macbook Pro, and someone told me I should disable disk defragmentation. So does anyone know if I should do this, how to do this and if there are negative side effects?

Thank you very much!

If you use any third party software that does disk fragmentation, throw it away. That's what you should do when you use a spinning disk drive, and you most definitely should do it with an SSD drive. Disk fragmentation on an SSD drive is worse than useless, due to the way SSD drives work.

Otherwise, there is nothing to do. MacOS X does some amount of file defragmentation by itself, I'd hope that the OS is clever enough to turn that off for SSD drives.

 

[benwiggy]

I put an SSD in my Macbook Pro, and someone told me I should disable disk defragmentation. So does anyone know how to do this

You can easily disable defragmentation on your SSD by LEAVING IT ALONE AND JUST USING YOUR COMPUTER.

Oh, it might be best to get a second opinion on anything else this someone may have advised.