Windows 10: Calling SSD users. What does your 'Optimise' window show ?

What do we learn from that?

There is this quote from your 2016 SanDisk article

Is it an advantage though? They then go on to say (which is odd)

I can not imagine why a company selling SSD claims improving performance for multi-function printers is an advantage. It is clearly BS.

Thanks but I'll stick with Samsung (EVO until I'm rich enough for something else). I recently bought a knock off one made by a company called "KingFast" (with a silent "Fuc" I suppose) that works OK mind you. Good company they were.

 

I just buy the SSD and use it. I don't worry myself sick over it. Most times theg aren't filled, sometimes they get close and I clean up. My oldest SSD is 7 years old and going fine. I now have 6 SSDs and no problems with any of them.

 

Agree with pparks1 ^^^^^^

 

Yes. I almost always do. A voice of reason *Smile

 

Hi,

That sums it up nicely.
Well put lx07.

Cheers, *Wink

 

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Here in the UK, some years ago, there was a comedy/panel game broadcast on ever-so-respectable BBC Radio 4 called "King Stupid".
It was quite silly and for some reason *Wink was renamed in later series.
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@Mooly made a good observation though.

Windows doesn't run optimization when it claims. I have a new PC that I clean installed at the beginning of the month. I have not turned it off ever and it doesn't sleep. Despite being set to run weekly the GUI claims it hasn't. I ran optimistion manually on the 1st just after I finished installing Windows and it decided to run optimization on D and E partitions (but not C) on the 7th.

Weekly is clearly a rather vague term. Perhaps it means something other than every 7 days. Perhaps "Weekly" means "Once a month" or "when I feel like it". I'll watch it and see just out of curiosity...

 

Hi,
@lx07:

It is quite accurate on all of my systems though. Guess I'm lucky....

Cheers, *Wink

 

I really don't think it really matters but it is certainly a bit mysterious.

I'm such a compulsive fiddler I'm amazed I didn't run it manually for 17 days. I'm normally much more OCD than that but in my defense I've been working and I must have forgot to be as obsessed as I normally am.

I'm genuinely curious now what will happen and I'll try really hard not to press the "Optimize" button even though I kind of want to *Wink

 

Hi,

Bottom line is, I think, is Window looks at it decides no action is needed but only logs it if it in fact did run the retrim command.

By not reporting this action it then look as if it has done nothing at all to the end user.

I'm sure I'm worse than you when it comes to fiddling with my machines. *Wink

Cheers, *Wink

 

I've just this minute checked and guess what. They optimised yesterday evening. I wasn't aware of anything happening although I could just have been away from the PC at the time. Nothing that doesn't happen on every other day though. And I see all partitions were done. The 'Recovery Drive Z' has static non changing files and so should never need doing.

How weird is that.

 

Because it`s useless, I don`t need it.

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Windows does a fine job of caching frequently used data in memory all by itself.

 

@Mooly you could see if turning on History in Task Scheduler might eventually give you more insight, if you're interested:




The Actions tab says the it just runs the command: %windir%\system32\defrag.exe -c -h -o -$

 

You guys totally missed the point of why I said it`s good idea to set aside some unallocated space.

 

Thanks Cliff (and thanks for your links earlier on *Smile)

Doesn't seem to be anything showing in the scheduler apart from yesterdays auto run. Nothing under 'next run' and no more info if you try and expand anything.