Scandisk on SSD hard disk

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• Friday, January 25, 2013 8:23 PM

   

   
  

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  no its not, your disk will not take damage if run scandisk.
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• Friday, January 25, 2013 8:30 PM

   

   
  

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  Ok, but is useful like for traditional hard disk's?

  Luigi

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• Friday, January 25, 2013 8:44 PM

   

   
  

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  Hello all,
  if the deframmentation is Dangerous on SSD hard disk, is it the same for the Scandisk?

  Thanks in advance.

  Luigi

  Hardware and software questions are best addressed to the hardware company and/or software company.

  You question is not a Windows question.  It is a third party hardware and third part software question.  Scandisk is not a Microsoft product.

  
  

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• Friday, January 25, 2013 11:10 PM

   

   
  

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  SSDs have a limited number of writes to each data cell. When the writes exceed the life, the SSD is useless.

  Defragmentation involves many writes so reduces the lifetime of an SSD substantially. Defragmentation of an SSD does not improve access times to data so is of no practical benefit.

  Scandisk checks for errors, but does not write to data cells so is safe to use on SSDs. However, Scandisk can only check data integrity. Hardware testing is always best done with the manufacturer's diagnostic utility.

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• Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:45 AM

   

   
  

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  Thanks a lot Dominic, very clear.

  Luigi

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