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Windows 10 version 2004 defrags your SSD too often
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Updated onJanuary 29, 2024
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There’s nothing wrong with defragmenting your drive once in a while to optimize your system’s speed.
However, if you updated toWindows 10 version 2004and you’re using anSSD, you will notice that the system defragments yourdiskevery day if you restart your computer.
It’s not recommended to defragment yourSSDtoo often as it might result in shortening its life.
Why is Windows 10 defragging my SSD every day?
If you check the Automatic Maintenance feature in Windows 10, you will see that the OS performs some maintenance tasks based on a schedule.
And these include, of course, checking thedrivesfor optimization (defragging and trimming) and other diagnostics.
You can check that for yourself by going to Control Panel, then System and Security, and then clicking on the Security and Maintenance.
As you can see from our example, the Automatic Maintenance just run in the morning.
After it optimizes the drives, Windows 10 records the last time it did that so that it doesn’t perform the process too often.
However, as the members of WilderSecurityrealized, after the release of Windows 10 2004, the Optimize Drives feature simply doesn’t remember the last time a drive has been optimized.
The drive needs optimization
And the proof is that when you go into Windows Defragger, you will notice that ourSSDdrive clearly points out that it needs optimization even though the optimization already run this morning.
Microsoftstatedthat with the Insider Preview Build 19551 they have fixed this issue:
Thank you for reporting that the Optimize Drives Control Panel was incorrectly showing that optimization hadn’t run on some devices. We’ve fixed it in this build.
Well, it seems that it hasn’t been fixed yet, so Windows 10’s automatic maintenance will defrag anSSDdrive more often than once a month, as it should.
There is a slight workaround for this. If you launch an optimization directly from the Optimize Drives, theSSDwill only perform the Trim function and not defragging.
To learn more about this feature, we have a guide that answersif trimming SSD is safe, so don’t miss it.
Did you experience this problem? If so, let us know in the comments.
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft.
His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
