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I've been wondering if it changed anything to defrag an SSD drive in order to move all the used clusters "in front" and keep the ones "in the back" open for, for example, partioning the hard drive more efficiently.

Does it change anything, or will creating a partition automatically use clusters from different places of the SSD independently?

One of my colleague told me it helped gain a lot of volume and allowed him to install another OS (on the same partition though, so slightly different topic). The OS refused to install before defrag becaues of space issues.

Anyway, do you guys have any thought/information about this?

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    Don't defrag SSDs!
    – Matthew Champion
    Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 12:37
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    I know it shouldn't be done, that's why I'm asking here if what my colleague did really made a difference or he just f*cked up my drive :D
    – Gil Sand
    Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 12:38
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    Your friend decreased your devices lifespan, how much, not a great deal. Don't let your friend touch your computer
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 12:54
  • +1 Fully d'accord to @MattChampion's answer. Particularly I want to point out Wear leveling.
    – user236012
    Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 12:56
  • That's what I thought.
    – Gil Sand
    Commented Mar 6, 2015 at 12:58

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