Just installed a ssd drive in my dell latitude e6410...

good evening,

I just installed a ssd drive in my dell latitude e6410 laptop. now some questions about how to keep the system in good shape..

1. is windows defender a good enough anti-virus/ security program or should I choose something else?

2. optimizing of ssd drive... how often?

3. is disk clean up safe for ssd drives? I know not to defragment ssd drives but what about disk clean up?


so far seems like the ssd drive made a big performance improvement

To answer your questions.
1. Yes Although I prefer a third party program.
2. Let Windows do it for you
3. Yes

BunnyJ said:

1. It's fine for general use.

2/3.. you don't need to and in fact doing a defrag on an SSD can speed up the process of wearing out. so don't..

Question #3 was about Disk Clean Up.

BunnyJ said:

Missed that part.. but yes.. it's safe.

I agree though. You never want to run defrag on a SSD.

Winuser said:

I agree though. You never want to run defrag on a SSD.

Windows 10 knows all about SSDs, and you probably should leave the built-in 'Optimise' enabled. It doesn't do a defrag as such, but it does some tidying up which is beneficial.

See this article.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRea...ntYourSSD.aspx

So the answer to question 2 is that you should leave disk optimisation enabled.

it was fast before, but it is even faster now with the ssd drive

I did look at that. is does say solid state drive