SSD Defragging?

no go, dont do it

dont defrag an SSD

I believe it wears down the drive, and since ssd's are so fast anyways, fragmented files wont be an issue unless there is an extremely high number of fragments

you can check the fragmentation level.

Defragging reduces the performance and life of an SSD. Never do it. Instead, use the TRIM command as needed if the drive supports it.

You do (depending on the type of ssd), have to run the TRIM command or use wiper.exe periodicaly to to keep it defragmented/healthy.

read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_(SSD_command)

As others have stated, NEVER defrag an SSD. The SSD can only be written to so many times, and all of the small reads and writes of defragging added up over time will degrade the lifespan of the drive.

With the super fast access times of SSD's, defragging is completely unnecessary.

After reading the comments above, is this guide safe?
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=64753

I am about to do it to the new kingston drive, but I am a little hesitated now. So would consolidating free space cause any damage to the ssd?

Defragging an SSD is bad for two reasons:
1) It hurts the drive by using unnecessary writes
2) SSDs can access any location of the drive on demand, it isn't limited to rotational speeds like mechanical drives (this is what makes location important on HDD).

The main goal with SSDs is to do what you can to minimize writes to the drive. But if you only have the 1 drive, then nevermind. In that situation, I would just relax since this is still a new and immature technology.

But yes, defragging an SSD is a very bad idea. It's also pointless.

It would be best just to run wiper.exe

Wear levelling kinda fragments the data all over the drive to make sure all memory banks get used more or less the same amount of time throughout the life of the drive, and this doesn't affect performance at all.
I doubt these old "asus" SSDs feature trim or will ever do, your best bet would be to wipe the whole drive when you start seeing performance degradation, find a way to do a sanitary erase if possible (wipe all blocks and mark them as wiped) then reimage the drive.

Flash memory wears out after many read/write cycles. Defragging will just make it wear out quicker. It wouldn't improve performance anyway.

Wiper.exe is only for the idilinx SSD but it does not hurt to try. I would also try the tony trim method its for all SSD.