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More than one manufacturer makes now huge 7200 RPM HDDs with [almost exactly] the same specs within a given line of drives - but one storage device with SATA III [6 Gbit/s] interface and its counterpart with SAS-3 [12 Gbit/s]

Assuming they both hold the very same data arranged in the sane places and also perfectly operating conditions are achieved, will SAS-3 HDD do a job of defragmenting quicker than SATA III drive made by the same manufacturer?

Can anyone shed some light on this?

job of defragmenting

When you say "defragmenting", you do mean, defragmenting?
And if so, why the concern (particularly) over defragmenting?

(I would suspect, that mostly, these days [& with exceptions], files are generally defragmented [or very low fragmented]. And then your OS, most likely, does some defragmentation, automatically, periodically.)

I need to make a process of load-up of huge sets of files to various programs quicker. And also to be able to make it quicker to find something without usage of Everything

And I have turned off automatic defragmentation long time ago, as far as when I was using Windows XP if not 98, so that it would not slow my work whenever it decides to do defragment

Can anybody add anything to this topic?

It will come down to the hard drive read and write speeds.

The interface will have little impact on performance.



Please avoid completely filling your drive if possible.
A drive should never be fragmented if it is never filled.