Advice Request Why Windows 8 and 8.1 de-fragments your SSD (bug?) and How to Avoid it

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OutsideTheBox: Why Windows 8 and 8.1 defragment your SSD and how you can avoid this

You’ve probably heard that modern OS Windows don’t defragment solid state drives. Yet there is a bug in Windows 8 that causes the OS to run this unnecessary for SSDs operation from time to time. Let’s take a closer look at how it happens.

Table of contents​

• How disk optimization works in Windows 8
• How to check if your SSD has been defragmented
• How SSD defragmentation actually happens
• How bad defrag really is for SSDs
• How to avoid defragmentation of your SSD
  • Step 1 — Exclude SSD from automatic maintenance
  • Step 2 — Create a new scheduled task for SSD retrim
• Is Microsoft aware of the problem?
• [Feb 2014 Update] Questions for the product team

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