Do you ever de fragment your SD card

**Big D5** · #1 (**permalink**) 06-24-2006, 11:35 PM

I read today that you can de fragment your SD cards. I have never done this, has anyone here ever tried this and what were your results?

**Wideawake** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2006, 11:39 PM

never done it before, and didn't know u could. it may help improve performance of the miniSD though. I might just give it a try. thanks for tha info.
~mike

**Malatesta** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006, 09:47 PM

I defrag my card at least once every month or so.

I simply stick it into my mini-SD into the SD converter, put into my SD card reader and use my defrag program (I use Diskeeper). Sure enough, my card was over 70% fragmented.

For more information, read this article:

How do I defragment my Pocket PC memory cards? Do I need this at all?

itsastckup · #4 (**permalink**) 08-01-2006, 06:13 PM

So to those who have defragged their memory cards, did you notice improved responce times?

darkmojo · #5 (**permalink**) 08-07-2006, 01:19 PM

you can defrag but I never noticed much of a perfomance increase. maybe when the bigger ones come out, it'll be more useful

iakobos · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2006, 09:44 PM

Isn't the purpose of defragging to reorganize files so the hard drive spindles don't have to spin as much? Solid-state memory cards don't need to spin. Do you notice any changes in available memory?

I did, however, leave an SD in the computer as it rebooted and it ran a ScanDisk and freed up a lot of memory. It must have been due to a previous crash or sync failure.

**Malatesta** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-01-2006, 10:47 PM

eh if I throw in a disk and my Diskeeper tells me the disk is 70% fragmented I see no harm in taking the minute to defrag.

And if you read that article I link to you'll see that it can make a difference in performance.

D1G1T4L · #8 (**permalink**) 10-05-2006, 06:11 AM

Well SD cards will be formated in FAT16 or FAT32 so defragging should be beneficial.

iakobos · #9 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 10:19 AM

You're right, Malatesta, there is no harm in trying. And since I sync 10-40Meg videos daily I would be interested to know. I do, however question the validity of the article since it referred to a 'benchmark' in a forum that mentioned "5-10% performance degradation" in a matter-of-fact way. The links were all focused on formatting and FAT tables rather than controlled experiments on defragmentation. But at this point it's like you said, "there's no harm in taking a minute."