Windows 10: SSD displays in optimisation windows as HDD

HiI am concerned about windows optimisation of my primary drive, as it is incorrectly showing it as an hdd, when in fact it is an ssd.How can I adjust the display and approach windows takes to this drive?A quick search on goggle found nothing related only capacity errors, and drives not showing.I have run 'winsat formal' to no availAppreciate any advise.

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Windows Optimise Drives Lists SSD as HDD. How to correct this?

I have a system with two RAIDs of SSD drives. Windows 10 Optimise Drives correctly list one as Media Type SSD. But it lists the other as HDD. This means it does not schedule a retrim on the drive but defragmentation. Microsoft does not recommend that an SSD be defragmented as it may be detrimental.



How can I correct the Media Type to SSD? There must be a setting in the registry somewhere?



I have tried



winsat formal



This does not change the Media Type.



Also

Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter D -ReTrim -WhatIf



This responds with



"Optimize-Volume: The volume optimization operation requested is not supported by the hardware backing the volume."



Perhaps because Windows thinks it is an HDD.



Get-PhysicalDisk



reports that the MediaType is 'Unspecified'



The only thing I have been able to do is turn off the Scheduled Optimisation. There must be a solution to this?

 

Windows Optimise Drives Lists SSD as HDD. How to correct this?

Hi Igor,

Yes,

fsutil fsinfo sectorinfo d:

reports

Trim Not Supported

as you suggested.

This is consitent with other commands such as Optimse Drives which say that the D: drive is a Hard Disc Drive. It is not an HHD, it is a RAID array of 4 SSDs. As Optimse Drives thinks it is an HDD it wants to run defragmentation on the drive every week. My solution so far has been to turn off scheduled optimisation.

My other SSD RAID is reported as an SSD by Optimse Drives and so the scheduled optimisation for it is retrim. Perhaps Windows is unable to clasify a drive as both SSD and 'Trim Not Supported'. That is maybe Windows identifies all SSDs that do not support trim as HDDs? (These SSDs do support TRIM by the way but perhaps not in the RAID setup.) It is reported on other sites that TRIM is not supported by AMD RAID. However, it is odd that one of the arrays does support TRIM and the other does not. Maybe it is best to just turn off scheduled optimisation for all SSD RAIDs.

 

CANT OPTIMISE AS HDD SHOWING AS SSD

I upgraded to windows 10 from windows 7 yesterday, and cannot now optimise my hard drive as it is showing as SSD. Can anyone give me step by step instructions for this pensioner who is not very good with IT. I have looked for other posts on this forum,
but none seem to have given simple instructions on how to solve this.

( I think I have been able to defrag using my internet security software, but would prefer to be able to do it direct through Windows). Here is a screenshot of what is happening when I try to optimise.:-