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Old 15th July 2014 | 23:39
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mixture
 
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NEVER defrag an SSD - you may damage it.
Hmmm, well.

I'd rather say ....

"NEVER defrag an SSD because its an utterly pointless waste of time"

Damage is going a bit too far, and likely technically incorrect because it doesn't do anything that a normal of series of reads and writes does.

NEVER use more than 2/3rd capacity of an SSD for maximum performance.
I call absolute BULL on that one.

Its an SSD. You can access all of it at exactly the same speed.

Now, there may be OS related reasons for only using 2/3rds if the SSD is your boot disk (i.e leaving 1/3 free for memory paging etc.)... but that's nothing to do with SSD capabilities.
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