I've got one of these.

Fdisk

Defrag should not 'wreck' it, it will just be the equivalent of doing a LOT of writes in a short period of time. It will wear it out much faster than not defragging.

Hitachi's new 4GB Microdrive, (officially known as the Hitachi Microdrive 3K4 series), is designed to the Compact Flash Type II industry standard and is compatible with a wide variety of devices that accept CF+ Type II media.

Compact Flash Fixed Disk

Windows XP SP1 installed on Compact Flash System Disk. Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started. I think it just needs some sort of driver for the Compact Flash card to 'fox' Windows XP into thinking it's dealing with a HDD. But first you'll need to update the Compact Flash 'disk' drive in Device Manager to 'force' it into. Windows OS Hub / Windows 7 / Removable USB Flash Drive as Local HDD in Windows. We will use a filter driver for USB flash drives by Hitachi (Hitachi Microdrive driver), which allows to change the USB device type from removable to fixed (USB-ZIP -> USB-HDD) at the OS driver level. Using this driver, you can hide from the system that the.

Normal SSDs can be defragged without any concern as their MTBF is in the many year range whereas a CF card is in the thousand of writes range.

Hitachi Hard Disk Utility

Hitachi Compact Flash Fixed Disk Filter Driver Windows 7

The no defrag thing is one of the many old wives tales of IT where someone took something that applied to a similar technology ten years ago and it kept getting passed on by people and no one ever checked into it again.