auslogics disk defrag

Matthew Wai said:

The build-in one, Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter C -Analyze -Verbose, always returns the following:

You do not need to defragment this volume.

How does the Disk defragmenter itself behave?

Code:

C:\Windows\System32\dfrgui.exe

Denis

Matthew Wai said:

So how does it behave?

Denis

Observation.

In Matthew's case, a 2% fragmentation level is acceptable so the Command/Powershell analyze returns "No need to defrag".

That's reasonable. The level may be higher, I do not know the cap value.

A perfectly defragged HDD volume in a perfect world would start to become slightly fragmented as soon as you use it. Rewrites alone would do it. So a small level of fragmentation is acceptable.

Bree said:

The GUI does not let you do anything that may be harmful and/or pointless, such as defraging an SSD.

Disk defragmenter does run SSD defragging - see the references in post #3.

Denis

Bree said:

Only if/when it deems it is required (which is seldom or never in my experience).

Yes.

And I've never seen an SSD defrag take place [unlike lx07, who posted the Event log entries for one].

Denis