Nah not really I guess if they overheat then they can slow down but i guess it depends on the speed

They don't get slower with age, or shouldn't at lease.

The main reason HDD's get slower with time, is because the more and more data you out on the drive the slower it will be.

So the answer to your question is no.

None SSD hard drives can slow down due to fragmentation of files after continuous use.

Older windows OS versions have their own Defragmentation tool, such as Windows 7

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You could also download Smart Defrag from IOBit, which will continually monitor and defrag files.

Just to add to Imp's post. Don't ever defrag a SSD if you decide to get one, it damages the life span quite drastically.

Generally. Mechanical hard drives have moving parts which can degrade so they don't function quite as they did when they were new. They can also have issues like bad sectors and fragmentation of data across the platters. Solid state storage also degrades over time with repeated write cycles.

You can get a general idea of how "healthy" an SSD is by checking how much data has been written to it over its lifetime and you can find the MTBF (Mean time before failure) for drives provided by the manufacturer, but everything is still essentially unpredictable.

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Craigyy wrote Just to add to Imp's post. Don't ever defrag a SSD if you decide to get one, it damages the life span quite drastically.

This x100

Just trim it.

I dont think its even possible for hard drives to get slow.. They just store your stuff.