Anyone who’s switched from an HDD to an SSD knows that it can cut your boot time down by a noticeable margin, not to mention ...

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.

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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 ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Question: I’ve been using Windows forever and as part of my annual device cleanup process, I defragment the hard drive. That supposedly makes it run faster. But do I need to do that with a new SSD ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Windows built-in defragger isn’t enough for you, Smart Defrag 3 is a feature-packed replacement. Though the benefits of defragging your hard drive are minimal in this day and age, after long ...

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