Defragging a ramdisk?

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luke123
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Defragging a ramdisk?

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Hi

When a ramdisk is used to hold programs and an image file is saved upon shutdown, is it a good idea to defrag the ramdisk (like a normal hard disk) every now and then? I ask because SSDs shouldn't be defragged.

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Re: Defragging a ramdisk?

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No, it is totally not needed.

The reason to defrag is that the sequence access performance of a magnetic disk is better than random access. For ramdisk and ssd, the peformances between sequence access and random access are almost same.
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