[SOLVED] Does Windows Auto defrag also run on SSD?

[wabale97]

I see a lot of articles mentioning turning off Win defrag for SSD life. Many of them are old but some of them are recent enough. Is windows still don't consider this basic thing for SSD?

 

[lvt]

Windows 10 knows how to manage your SSD (MS even insists that you should use SSD for W10), just leave it as is.

 

[Colif]

The short answer is, yes, Windows does sometimes defragment SSDs, yes, it's important to intelligently and appropriately defrag SSDs, and yes, Windows is smart about how it treats your SSD.

Storage Optimizer will defrag an SSD once a month if volume snapshots are enabled. This is by design and necessary due to slow volsnap copy on write performance on fragmented SSD volumes. It’s also somewhat of a misconception that fragmentation is not a problem on SSDs.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-real-and-complete-story-does-windows-defragment-your-ssd

Volsnap is otherwise known as Volume Shadow Copy. Its used by System restore.
Defrag runs TRIM on the ssd, it knows what ssd are. Defrag is not the same program it used to be on Win 7. Its smarter and more part of a storage management system now.

 

[PsychoPsyops]

They're right. The defrag program will "optimize" ssd's with TRIM, rather than going through the actual defrag process.
The button within the program will change to "optimize" when the ssd is selected as well.

 

[Bob.B]

I see a lot of articles mentioning turning off Win defrag for SSD life. Many of them are old but some of them are recent enough. Is windows still don't consider this basic thing for SSD?

Open the disk optimize app.

Make sure the scheduler is on.

Make sure the ssd shows as a ssd and not a hdd.

Windows will handle the rest.