Defragmentation?

[fishbone]

Anybody know how to possibly defrag the hard drive on the iphone or if it really needs to be done???

[aehollisterboii]

its a flash drive not a hard drive didnt u read the specs on apple before buying the phone you must be a PC user.........sorry to hear that


http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

[fishbone]

Originally Posted by aehollisterboii

its a flash drive not a hard drive didnt u read the specs on apple before buying the phone you must be a PC user.........sorry to hear that


http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

No I didn't but thanks for the link...

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Originally Posted by aehollisterboii

its a flash drive not a hard drive didnt u read the specs on apple before buying the phone you must be a PC user.........sorry to hear that


http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Smartass...

Some of us PC users actually know quite a bit about the iPhone. I have OSX installed on my PC as well.

[tharmsen]

Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart

Smartass...

Some of us PC users actually know quite a bit about the iPhone. I have OSX installed on my PC as well.

That's in violation of Apples licensing agreement. Are you going to tell us next that you have pirated music in your library?

Just giving ya a hard time.

Do you like OSX? I prefer it over Windows now.

[fishbone]

Originally Posted by Napoleon_PhoneApart

Smartass...

Some of us PC users actually know quite a bit about the iPhone. I have OSX installed on my PC as well.

Thanks...I wish I'd said that.....

[Tinman]

Originally Posted by aehollisterboii

its a flash drive not a hard drive didnt u read the specs on apple before buying the phone you must be a PC user.........sorry to hear that

It's posts like this that make me want to use an Ignore List...


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Mike

[Naylor07]

You can defrag SD flash memory cards. I used to do it with my Mini SD card on my blackberry, but since the iPhone doesn't show up as a mass storage device, I don't think you can do it.

[adseguy]

Originally Posted by Naylor07

You can defrag SD flash memory cards. I used to do it with my Mini SD card on my blackberry, but since the iPhone doesn't show up as a mass storage device, I don't think you can do it.

I think you are forgetting the point of defragmentation. In hard drives there is an actual mechanical device that spins around and reads sections from certain spots on a spinning disk. You fragment when you install a program and then uninstall something. This creates "gaps" in the device and just creates lag in the hard drive since it has to move around a lot more to receive all the data around the drive. When you defrag you move these files closer together by moving them into the empty spots....hence a faster hard drive. With the iPhone and your SD card or any solid state device (one with no physically moving parts) any parts of the "drive" is accessed at the same speed. Like having to go to fast forward a VHS to having a DVD where it instantaneously goes to the spot you want. not that great of an analogy, but I hope you get my point. I hope this explains any further confusion.

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[Naylor07]

Despite the popular belief ("memory cards don't contain moving, mechanical parts; therefore, there's no point in defragmenting them"), it is worth defragmenting them now and then.

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...1&pb=1#more516