Defragging SD card

[Malibu02]

Anybody ever defragged their SD card and is there any reason to?

 

[Malibu02]

Anybody ever defragged their SD card and is there any reason to?

I went ahead and checked it using W7 and it showed it was pretty fragged but I only have about 2 gigs on it.
I ran the defrag and it took about 30 min. To soon to tell if it made a difference but no ill effects I could find.

 

[sfam198]

The only thing you'll accomplish by defragging your sd card is to shorten it's life. Flash memory does not need to be defraged. Defragging helps traditional platter based hard drives because there is a physical component that performs read/write operations. Keeping your files together on the physical drive quickens up the read/write process. Flash memory has no moving parts therefore defragging provides no benefit.

 

[worwig]

The only thing you'll accomplish by defragging your sd card is to shorten it's life. Flash memory does not need to be defraged. Defragging helps traditional platter based hard drives because there is a physical component that performs read/write operations. Keeping your files together on the physical drive quickens up the read/write process. Flash memory has no moving parts therefore defragging provides no benefit.

What sfam198 says.

You just wore it out a little. FAT file system isn't going to even save space by defraging. No speed gain. So no point.

It doesn't hurt to run a check on it occasionally to search for lost clusters though.

 

[wgragg]

The only thing you'll accomplish by defragging your sd card is to shorten it's life. Flash memory does not need to be defraged. Defragging helps traditional platter based hard drives because there is a physical component that performs read/write operations. Keeping your files together on the physical drive quickens up the read/write process. Flash memory has no moving parts therefore defragging provides no benefit.

Unless he has one of those new fangled SD cards with teeny, tiny little platters and microscopic heads!