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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defragmenting your drive, or defragging, used to be routine basic maintenance. But as our computers have evolved, so has the need to defrag. Here's why we don't need to do that anymore—and what we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

I've got a trial copy of version 6.5 of O&O defrag and I was wondering how to defrag locked files (like the MFT, pagefile, and hibernation file). In the help file, it says something about setting up a ...

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 ...