![]() Windows 10 is smart enough to recognize an SSD when it sees one and can also differentiate between HDDs and Virtual drives, too. SSDs are a totally different animal in that defragging them is contraindicated. In the modern world, most new computers come with Solid State Drives (SSD) and it is likely that most people today are using an SSD. Windows knows this and will only use a TRIM function. It will negatively effect the drive and gain you nothing in performance. Absolutely do not defragment a Solid State Drive. Note: This rule does not apply to an SSD. Don’t ask because I don’t remember where I read that, but it seemed like good advice at the time. The rule of thumb was to not let drives become more than 10% fragmented. Watching the little blocks moving around, trying to anticipate where the next one would go… never mind. Don’t tell anyone, but I used to be mesmerized by that activity. ![]() At the time, this was accomplished with third-party tools which often offered an interesting group of blocks being shuffled around showing its progress. ![]() This helped them to run at peak efficiency, reduced “head thrashing”, and prolonged the life of the drive, not to mention that your computer would be more responsive, too. In the old days one of the necessary chores was to defragment (Defrag) your Hard Disk Drives (HDD) on a regular basis. ![]()
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