Windows 10 has automatically been defragging my SSD!

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I am right in thinking you should never defrag an SSD? I just was rooting around in my PC and found that windows 10 had placed an automatic defrag on my drive, even though it knows it's an SSD!

Is there literally no benefit to defragging an SSD? just using up cycles?

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It's almost certainly not doing a defrag, IIRC the TRIM command is ran from that screen as well.
 
There is a bug with Windows and SSDs where it will very rarely defrag an SSD.

Defragging an SSD is pointless and while not directly harmful just needlessly puts wear on the SSD for no real purpose.
 
Make sure it is actually defrag and not some kind of TRIM like task or other maintenance as mentioned above. Though Windows 10 seems to concern itself with a lot of maintenance tasks which don't seem to actually accomplish anything other than cause intermittent performance impact while running.
 
Don't disable it. A quick google about this subject will explain why it's important to keep this on. Windows knows what it's doing with your SSD, let it carry on.

Yes, SSDs don't work in the same way as magnetic spinning disks of yesteryear, however files do get stored as fragments, and there is an overhead associated with this which is the metadata that points to all the fragments. This can only get so big, and when it does you're in trouble.

TL;DR, just let windows do its thing. It isn't killing your drive. "Optimize Drives" isn't just defrag.exe, it's a more overarching disk health application.
 
beany_bot - from that screen, click on "Optimize". I'll bet it says that it's running TRIM on the drive. It's identified the drive in question as being solid-state storage after all.
 
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