for SSD's how do i clean the drive?

[skillywilly]

i hear defrag is bad for SSDs how about disk cleanup?
any other recommendations

 

[ianyanian]

What do you mean with "clean"?
Is it erase the drive or delete temporary/junk files?

 

[warhead0]

With a program like Defraggler, you can 'optimize' the SSD. I'm not too sure whats actually happening to the SSD when you do this however.

 

[rgd1101]

no need to defrag a ssd.

 

[ianyanian]

As long as you enable SSD trimming, you don't have to worry about 'cleaning' the files.

 

[dudeman509]

Yes, you can run a typical Windows disk cleanup to delete temporary or junk files without causing any harm to the disk.

 

[skillywilly]

do i need to enable trimming? i did a clean install on a new pc i build win 10 OS 2 months ago

 

[skillywilly]

i just have downlaoded allot of mods and deleted allot of files of late..lot of activity want to clean it up

 

[ianyanian]

do i need to enable trimming? i did a clean install on a new pc i build win 10 OS 2 months ago

It's recommended to enable trimming for SSD drives.
You can check it by running a command prompt and type the command:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If DisableDeleteNotify = 1 -> TRIM support disabled
If DisableDeleteNotify = 0 -> TRIM support enabled

If it's disabled and you want to enable it, type the command:
fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

 

[dudeman509]

Windows 7, 8, and 10 should enable TRIM by default when a SSD drive is installed.

 

[SBMfromLA]

Windows 7, 8, and 10 should enable TRIM by default when a SSD drive is installed.

Yes and No... if the SSD is given a fresh install of Windows. If you cloned the drive from a mechanical hard drive onto an SSD, then Windows does not detect the SSD and won't enable TRIM. If you have Windows 7, you can run the Performance Index to get it to detect and activate TRIM.

 

[skillywilly]

yeah its enabled tx