Windows 10: Will using the built in OPTIMIZE and DEFRAGMENT setting help speed my SSD up or damage it?

hello I own a SSD and saw a setting that said OPTIMIZE and DEFRAG your drives and I clicked on it and ran It my PC seemed to be less crunchier so I went to YouTube and chrome to look it up further and some are saying it will damage it and some that said it would help me, and when I kept scrolling it said it will Automatically change between DEFRAG and TRIM depending on what card you have can you help me figure out wich answer is the right one? I'm confusedQuestion 1: is my SSD going to get damaged or is it set to automatically optimize depending on what type or drive you are using?Question 2:

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Windows 10 can not optimize HDD, says it is a SSD Help

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

Appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

• Does the BIOS recognizes the disk as HDD or SSD?
  

Suggest you to set the Optimize Drives Service to start automatically from the services window to check if that helps.

1. Open the run window, type ‘services.msc’ and press Enter.
   
2. Search for Optimize Drives Service and select the start-up type as automatic. Also ensure to start the service.
   

If you have set SATA controller to AHCI mode for Solid State Drive, in Device Manager it would show as SATA hard disk.

Follow these steps:

1. Click start, type “Defragment” and click “Defragment and Optimize your drives”.
   
2. On the “Defragment and Optimize your drives” window. Make sure that your SSD is categorized as an SSD.
   
3. If it’s not, then you can set it as a SSD on your bios. This way, you don’t have to exclude your SSD or disable any scheduled defragmentation.
   

Disclaimer: Modifying BIOS/ complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) settings incorrectly can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuring
of BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Modifications of the settings are at your own risk.

Hope this helps.

Let us know if you got the help you needed.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

Defragmenting SSD

Hello everyone! Should I use the Windows 10 built-in Disk Defragmentation to defragment my SSD? Some internet sources suggest that SSDs should never be defragmented.

 

SSD Defrag Optimization analize Not Available

Hard drives are analyzed to see if they need to be defragged. However, SSDs are never defragged for the following reasons

1. You gain nothing from doing it
2. SSDs have a limited number of writes. Unnecessary writing decreases the drive's life

Instead of defragging SSDs are trimmed automatically.