Comments on: Never Defragment a Flash Drive http://www.pcmech.com/article/never-defragment-flash-drive/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:37:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.pcmech.com/article/never-defragment-flash-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-15990 Adam Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:49:24 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=8274#comment-15990 Great article. I was recently designing an on-board memory controller using flash cards, and I was surprised to see that the maximum lifetime "writes" for any given card was about 100,000 to 300,000. This is a large number... but no sense chewing up thousands per defragment. Great article.

I was recently designing an on-board memory controller using flash cards, and I was surprised to see that the maximum lifetime “writes” for any given card was about 100,000 to 300,000. This is a large number… but no sense chewing up thousands per defragment.

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