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MrWongBurger

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you may have to be more precise if you want a specific response.

what I mean is, what you are calling 'optimise' may need further explanation.

Give your Windows version, SSD model, defrag program, and any other relevant info.

 

for example, Windows has gone from calling it Defragging to Optimising in Windows 8.

and to simplify, the process has gone from physically moving files to just issuing a TRIM command (as in your SSD question).

 

then you get into the whole can of worms of the school of thought as to what should be done to SSD's (if anything).

then the mix is further complicated by each SSD manufacturer.

 

personally, I leave my SSD alone, have turned off all excessive services that access the SSD, moved all possible I/O operations off the SSD (like pagefile, temp folders etc) and only let it do what it's own wear-leveling and maintenance routines want.

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Mta obviously the defrag program in question here is defraggler

:rolleyes:

 

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I think that the OP means what does Defraggler Optimise SSD mean, as this is posted in the Defraggler Discussion forum.

 

I understand that the Defraggler Optimise is different from Windows 8 Optimise. Win 8 runs a TRIM against the volume, and Defraggler runs a zero fill, which to my feeble brain is a Wipe Free Space. However a modernish SSD, on receiving a page zero fill instruction, which is what WFS is, will unmap the physical page and mark it as free for garbage collection instead of wasting time and effort writing all those zeroes. (A default page of zeroes would be returned on a subsequent read command.) So in effect Defraggler is running a TRIM against the volume, with the advantage that neither the SSD nor the OS need to be TRIM enabled.

 

Should you run it? Sure, on occasion. Depending, of course, whether my interpretation of Defraggler's Optimise is correct, as we are not given access to the subtleties of Piriform's products.

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Mta obviously the defrag program in question here is defraggler :rolleyes:

never assume anything :D

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 we are not given access to the subtleties of Piriform's products.

 

nor do we have that access to Windows subtleties.

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I am confident that the Piriform Developers would never unleash on the naive public a product that they would not run on their own computers.

 

BUT

I would never place blind faith in SSD Optimizing by any product other than that specifically endorsed by my SSD manufacturer,

and only if I saw the need to optimize my SSD would I research that.

Similarly I always use CCleaner Analyze and examine the intended consequences before I ran the Cleaner.

I especially do not trust Windows Updates and never ever again let them happen without first making an image backup of my SSD.

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I think that the OP means what does Defraggler Optimise SSD mean, as this is posted in the Defraggler Discussion forum.

 

I understand that the Defraggler Optimise is different from Windows 8 Optimise. Win 8 runs a TRIM against the volume, and Defraggler runs a zero fill, which to my feeble brain is a Wipe Free Space. However a modernish SSD, on receiving a page zero fill instruction, which is what WFS is, will unmap the physical page and mark it as free for garbage collection instead of wasting time and effort writing all those zeroes. (A default page of zeroes would be returned on a subsequent read command.) So in effect Defraggler is running a TRIM against the volume, with the advantage that neither the SSD nor the OS need to be TRIM enabled.

 

Should you run it? Sure, on occasion. Depending, of course, whether my interpretation of Defraggler's Optimise is correct, as we are not given access to the subtleties of Piriform's products.

 

Thank you this is what i was looking for.

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