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Evade: Avoid giving a direct answer to (a question).
I have gone over dozens of threads at Microsoft Community and TechNet and not one poster has received an answer to a question similar to this one from Microsoft. Many simply stated that Windows does not defrag SSDs period, which included Scott Hanselman until he changed his tune a couple of years ago. This was the official line from Microsoft. The vast majority never received any answers from Microsoft employees who simply ignored the questions.
He (Hanselman) stated in his blog that SSDs get "intelligently" defragmented but gives no explanation of that. In the comments he stated "Certainly it doesn't Defrag them the same way" but gives no explanation of that. Again later in the comments he stated "I didn't mean to imply an SSD-special defrag." So why did he imply that in the first place?
If Microsoft wasn't evading the question they would have gone much further and posted an article explaining this to the vast amount of people who asked and are still asking this very question. They have never bothered and likely never will.
The reason I'd like someone here to answer this question is that with the amount of knowledge and experience that many of the posters here have with Windows who would know better?
Last edited by bumboola; 21 Apr 2017 at 01:51.