siccmade 11
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- Dec 18, 2010
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I wanted to get an idea of what the new disk optimizer was doing for SSDS in window 8/8.1. After some research I discovered the the task "ScheduledDefrag" is including ssd's by default after a fresh install or upgrade to windows 8/8.1, After searching for the topic online i came across this site that confirmed what I was seeing. http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/ Even though I know not to run disk defrag on ssds and never have windows, 8/8/1 was running it anyway. By default windows 8/8.1 claims to defrag HDDS and run trim commands on SSDs but this is not what is actually happening. Here is a log file i generated of what the task was actually doing :
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:10 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed retrim on (C
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:10 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
(C
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:02 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
(E
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:00 AM
Message : The volume System Reserved was not optimized because an error
was encountered: The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:24:59 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed retrim on New
Volume (D
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:24:59 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
New Volume (D
Disk C and D are SSDs while disk E is a HDD. As you can see disk optimizer is sending trim commands as well as defragging both my SSDs. The above link has a workaround to stop windows 8/8.1 defragmenting your solid state drives. Apparently Microsoft has been made aware of this since the early stages of windows 8 but has yet to release a fix....
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:10 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed retrim on (C
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:10 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
(C
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:02 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
(E
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:25:00 AM
Message : The volume System Reserved was not optimized because an error
was encountered: The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:24:59 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed retrim on New
Volume (D
TimeGenerated : 12/8/2013 1:24:59 AM
Message : The storage optimizer successfully completed defragmentation on
New Volume (D
Disk C and D are SSDs while disk E is a HDD. As you can see disk optimizer is sending trim commands as well as defragging both my SSDs. The above link has a workaround to stop windows 8/8.1 defragmenting your solid state drives. Apparently Microsoft has been made aware of this since the early stages of windows 8 but has yet to release a fix....