Malastare Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 NEVER defrag a SSD. You will ruin it. If you don't understand technology, please don't talk about it. Defragging an SSD won't ruin it. It won't help a bit, because there is little to no speedup on SSDs for reading files in sequential sectors. At worst, it will wear the drive. SSDs can only write data to a particular sector a limited number of times, and defragging an SSD can burn a lot of those for no benefit. However, most current-generation SSDs can write a few GBs of data every day for 6-10 years. If you ran a defrag every single day on a drive that had a lot of churn, you might drop the life of your drive from 10 years, to 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malastare Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 SATA 3 ports didn't start getting added to Intel chipsets until the Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155) processors came out. You have a 1st generation Core series processor, so you only have SATA 2. Thankfully, SATA 3 drives are backwards compatible. Many earlier motherboards had extra SATA-3 (actually: SATA 6Gb) ports added through peripheral chipsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paralassa Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Hi there! There are existing discussion threads regarding computer hardware which you may find very helpful: Desktop Hardware Q&ALooking to build a machine?*Ultimate* Desktop PC Performance GuideUltimate Guide to speeding up Win 7 on low/mid range systems[HOWTO - RAMDRIVE] Increasing SWTOR System PerformanceOfficial Bioware Guide to In-Game Performance Settings You can also check out our General FAQs for information about minimum system specifications. In the interest of consolidating discussion, we have closed this thread. Please use one of the topics linked above for further questions and discussion of hardware specifications. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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