This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). With smarter file systems and faster disks and PCs, file ...

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug in the Windows 10 version 2004 defragger that caused SSD drives to be defragmented too often. In June 2020, after the Windows 10 May 2020 Update was released, we reported ...

SSD or Solid State Drive, also known as Electronic Disk, has no moving mechanical parts, such as movable read and write heads and spinning disks. SSDs use non-volatile flash memory, unlike the HDDs ...

In this post, we will see how Windows 11/10/8 treats Defragmentation on Solid-State Drives. A Solid State Drive or SSD is a relatively new kind of drive, which consists of an array of flash memory ...

You've likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive.

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

We still get quite a few questions about when and how to optimize storage devices. Easy answer: The care and feeding of storage devices is either taken care of automatically by Windows, or it’s simply ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Microsoft is rolling out a fix for an SSD defrag bug introduced in the 2004 update for Windows 10, but while it's important to install, rumors of drive damage are greatly exaggerated. Share on ...

Imagine the following: you create a word document and save it. The document is split into tiny bits and accessed as such. At first, the bits are stored next to each other — the file is saved in a ...