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.. but not on SSDs.
If you use SSDs (as recommended in #3), defrag is not a good option. The seek time on SSDs is next to nothing (at least compared to mechanical disks), so there's no real benefit in defragging.
The only real implication is that it will cost you write cycles on the flash chips, effectively shortening the lifespan of the SSD in question.
Posted by streamcap
Updated - 12th Sep 2011