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Index fragmentation and SSDs

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Index fragmentation is bad on traditional, spinning disk drives because the read head has to dance all around to gather the scattered data, slowing everything down. With solid state drives there are no moving parts and thus access is much, much faster. Would index fragmentation even be a problem with SSDs? Wouldn't data access be just as fast as unfragmented data?

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