Windows, SSDs and Defrag

@kevvyb -

You do not perform a traditional defragmentation of an SSD.

Simply put, click on Defragment and Optimize Drives - your drive should state Solid State Drive and have the Optimize button (TRIM) enabled
One click and done. You can schedule how many times you want the TRIM command to run in that area.

I run it every other day, manually. It's fast!

Hope this helps.



P.S. If the SSD is not recognized as a SSD post back.

Kev,

What Scott is saying is based on setting your drives in the Optimiser to be worked on weekly.
That includes a monthly defrag even though the chosen frequency is weekly.
The monthly defrag is also mentioned in my ditty SSD trim, defrag - TenForums and the MS article to which it links.

Yes, Scott does say that System restore needs to be on. But he does not seem to have considered additional drives. If you want to be certain then you'll need to set System restore on for each one.

Then run Optimiser, tick all your disks and set it to run automatically [its default is weekly] and then you can forget all about defragging because Windows is worrying about it for you.
C:\Windows\System32\dfrgui.exe
or
Start menu, Windows administrative tools, Defragment & optimise drives

All the best,
Denis

Hi.

It's really easy, either command line or click.

kevvyb said:

the O/S just interprets the correct action for the type of drive?

Yes.

Denis

Kev,

Something must have distracted me. I also intended to point out that you can see the records of defrag operations in Event viewer. Doing so would answer your question about your various drives.

Unzip this Event viewer, Custom view definition & import it into Event viewer.
Defrag.zip

I happen to call it Defrag but you can call it whatever you want.
Before importing it, you can read the unzipped xml file in Notepad or, for a better presentation of its contents, by right-clicking and opening in a browser.
1 Unzip the file
2 Open Event viewer, click on Import Custom view [on the right-hand side],
3 Browse to and select the xml, Open,
4 Change the name if you want to then OK,
5 You can see the records, on the left-hand side, within the group Custom views.

Best of luck,
Denis