Help
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Was Windows 8.1 defragging my SSD?

Torpedo499
Level 7

‎11-23-2014 10:57 AM - last edited on ‎03-05-2024 09:52 PM by Community Admin

So I was running maintenance tasks today through the action center and it said on my task manager that it was defragging one of my drives.
So I check to see and it said defragging my HDD, however is said that my SSD needs optimization and it said "Drive last optimized 21374858 days ago" which is very weird.
Anyway when I went back to the windows defrag menu it didn't say anything about the TRIMM command it showed my SSD being defragged like "Pass 1: 0% Consolidated"

Was Windows defragging my SSD?
Labels:
0 Kudos
3,058 Views
4 REPLIES 4

Maxter
Level 9

‎11-23-2014 11:28 AM

Torpedo499 wrote:
So I was running maintenance tasks today through the action center and it said on my task manager that it was defragging one of my drives.
So I check to see and it said defragging my HDD, however is said that my SSD needs optimization and it said "Drive last optimized 21374858 days ago" which is very weird.
Anyway when I went back to the windows defrag menu it didn't say anything about the TRIMM command it showed my SSD being defragged like "Pass 1: 0% Consolidated"

Was Windows defragging my SSD?


make sure that TRIM is "on". Run command prompt: "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" if answer is 0, TRIM enabled, if 1, it's dissabled. Usually win8 optimization is really fast. Shouldn't even try to defrag.
0 Kudos

Torpedo499
Level 7
In response to Maxter

‎11-23-2014 11:31 AM

The command shows "0" however, I've done some digging and came up with this: http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/

It seems that Windows defrags SSDs during automatic/manual maintenance.
0 Kudos

Maxter
Level 9
In response to Torpedo499

‎11-24-2014 01:59 PM

Torpedo499 wrote:
The command shows "0" however, I've done some digging and came up with this: http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/

It seems that Windows defrags SSDs during automatic/manual maintenance.


huh... seems like I'm disabling my auto-maintenance right now. Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to read more about this issue.
0 Kudos

Torpedo499
Level 7
In response to Maxter

‎11-24-2014 02:35 PM

Maxter wrote:
huh... seems like I'm disabling my auto-maintenance right now. Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to read more about this issue.

No problem, really hope they make a fix for this!
0 Kudos