Eddie, I don't claim to be any kind of computer geek, so please don't bash me up if this stuff's not kosher, but as far as i'm aware it's no good defragging flash drives because they don't care where the bits of data are, they are capable of accessing it all at any one time even if it's all over the place. Therefore it doesn't matter if the data be sequential or random. A defrag of a mechanical drive helps because the seek heads can pick up the data quicker if it's sequential as they then don't have to leap all around looking for it. In fact i think because of the wear leveling protection built into a flash drive, defragging it may even shorten it's life marginally because of the 'wear limits' being approached sooner, inhibiting the 'wear leveling' which actually tries to spread the load by writing data evenly in all sectors. The good news is that doing it a couple of times is no big deal, but i'd not be doing it again. So if i'm right, your speed improvement may be due to something else. If i'm talking thru my hat, i'm sure Caty or Ballebar or someone far more savvy than me will jump in and politely correct this.

Good to hear it's running better anyway, for whatever reason.