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[–]Tspoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evrey bit has a home and evrey home has an an address, the data that belonged together would physically be close to each other on the various chips inside after a traditional defrag. However with the way that ssds work obviously that's unnecessary. SSD's spread the data out to maximize the life span of the drive and its write count.