Is short stroking an ssd possible?

[Rafael Mestdag]

Would it speed it up?

 

[Ralston18]

Will crawl out on a limb so to speak and say "no".

Short stroking gains some speed by taking some mechanical advantages available within the HDD. I.e., placing data in areas of the disk platter that are the first to be reachable. Such sectors may offer performance advantages and those sectors are selected according.

SSD's do not have those mechanical advantages....

And if there is some solid state equivalent, I would expect that the continual reads/writes would reduce the effective working life of those areas.

That is one of the reasons for not using defrag on SSDs.

 

[Solandri]

Will crawl out on a limb so to speak and say "no".

Correct.

Short stroking gains some speed by taking some mechanical advantages available within the HDD. I.e., placing data in areas of the disk platter that are the first to be reachable. Such sectors may offer performance advantages and those sectors are selected according.

Close. Mechanical HDDs store data at the same density across the entire platter. Since the outer tracks are approximately 2x further from the center than the inner tracks, they have about 2x the circumference, and consequently hold about 2x as much data. Since each track completes one rotation in the same amount of time, the outer tracks consequently have 2x the data transfer rate of the inner track.

When you short stroke a HDD, you place a partition entirely on the outer tracks. This results in a higher data transfer rate for that partition than for the rest of the drive.

SSD "sectors" are addressed electronically, so all perform at the same speed. (In fact, the sectors are virtual, and the drive moves them around as part of its wear-leveling algorithm without the computer or OS knowing about it.) There is nothing to be gained by short stroking or defragmenting.

 

[USAFRet]

Would it speed it up?

No.
A basic understanding of how an SSD works would make that blindingly obvious.