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  1. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
       #21

    swarfega said:
    There was a huge thread on here some years ago about this which I can't find atm.
    Nick, this one? From 3 years ago?

    Why is Windows defragging my SSD?
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  2. Posts : 7,254
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
       #22

    Yea thats the one!
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  3. Posts : 366
    Windows 10 v. 21H1, Build 19043.1348
       #23

    f14tomcat said:
    Yes, quite normal. Surprised it didn't take just a few seconds. Trim/Retrim are quick operations.
    Thanks! I had about 15 tabs open on 2 browsers, so my GUID cache was pretty taxed. I didn't explicitly time it but it may have been even less than 30 seconds (I said less than 1 minute just to pad for error).

    Given the very short execution time, I'm presuming this doesn't incur much wear at all to the SSD?
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       #24

    cytherian said:
    Given the very short execution time, I'm presuming this doesn't incur much wear at all to the SSD?
    Trim reduces wear on the SSD because it increases the number of cells available for wear leveling.
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  5. Posts : 50,055
    Windows 10 Home 64bit 21H1 and insider builds
       #25

    W10 Tweaker said:
    There are only limited tasks I trust Windows to successfully complete, retrim & defrag would be two of them. I verified this performance on a daily basis for months after installing an SSD. Now, I don't worry about it.


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    C: & L: are partitions on an NVMe.
    D: & F: are partitions on a HDD.
    I wouldn't trust it. The scheduling of trim was broken for a long time last year. It ran every time defrag was run rather than every 28 days.
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    Windows 10 Pro 21H1 19043.1348
       #26

    kado897 said:
    I wouldn't trust it. The scheduling of trim was broken for a long time last year. It ran every time defrag was run rather than every 28 days.
    What OS? I'm using 1909 & 2004 and haven't noticed anything irregular.
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  7. Posts : 50,055
    Windows 10 Home 64bit 21H1 and insider builds
       #27

    W10 Tweaker said:
    What OS? I'm using 1909 & 2004 and haven't noticed anything irregular.
    Think it was the insider version of 2004 before release.
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  8. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
       #28

    cytherian said:
    Thanks! I had about 15 tabs open on 2 browsers, so my GUID cache was pretty taxed. I didn't explicitly time it but it may have been even less than 30 seconds (I said less than 1 minute just to pad for error).

    Given the very short execution time, I'm presuming this doesn't incur much wear at all to the SSD?
    The actual Trim operation's wear and tear on the SSD is minuscule. All it's doing is erasing a pool of marked-unused cells in the controller. It does this to eliminate the need for the cell to be erased prior to write by the app and controller. Makes writing much faster. Obviously more complicated than that, but that's the gist.
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  9. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
       #29

    W10 Tweaker said:
    What OS? I'm using 1909 & 2004 and haven't noticed anything irregular.
    My 2 cents worth. Keith is right, it's still busted and not worth trying to understand and trust. Just turn it off and do it your self on a sensible schedule. HDDs, unless they are hard ridden and put away wet, can go for a long time. SSDs, weekly is kinda standard.
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  10. Posts : 1,031
       #30

    As others have said, windows 10 defragmentation is optimized for solid state drives. However, defragging your ssd the old fashioned way is bad if you do it too many times, as it causes the ssd to wear down with time.
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