![]() Some of you may have heard that you should never defragment Solid State Drives. Windows 10 contains an excellent defragmentation utility (officially called “Optimize Drives” or Disk Optimization) that’s always running in the background and defragging your Windows drive ( usually C:\ ) automatically, once each week. (Solid State Drives are automatically optimized one each month.)īut more than that, Windows Disk Optimization lets you check the status of your hard drive(s) and manually defragment any hard drive, as well as change the frequency of your automatic defragmentation. Today, with terabyte or larger drives, and Microsoft Windows’ evolution which includes automatic schedule defragmentation has made the user worries of drive fragmentation forgettable. ![]() Fragmentation of smaller drives and a lack of automatic defragging in Windows, gave rise to the “defragging your hard drives will make your computer faster” era. And that caused a lot of developers to create defragmentation programs to automate disk defragging in Windows. All that, coupled with hard drives that were comparatively small – 80 GB or less – meant that defragging hard drives was something users had to think about and take care of manually. ![]() And the defragmentation tool included with Windows in those versions was not stellar. Early versions of Windows prior to Windows did not have scheduled hard drive maintenance set by default. The whole concept that defragging hard drives meant increasing the speed of your PC were born during the days of Windows 9x and 540 MB (that’s right Megabyte) hard drives. But if you’re using Windows 7, Windows 8x or Windows 10, you don’t need any 3rd party defragging programs at all. Many of you use a 3rd-party defragging utility like Defraggler. All About Windows 10’s Drive Optimization Feature
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