OT: maybe W8 (or W8.1) defrags SSDs even though it's not meant to

I stumbled across this an hour ago:

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(It's quite long, and quite detailed...) My impression is that the author does seem to have a good reason to believe that W8[.1] is not leaving SSDs alone, and that his suggested solution is a good idea. After all, doing what he suggests is unlikely to cause a problem whereas leaving things alone may (if MS are wrong) cause one.

What do people here think?

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Jeremy Nicoll - news posts
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I always have task scheduler disabled anyway, but when I manually check, Windows knows it's an SSD and just TRIMs it. Same on both machines here, so that's good enough for me ;)

Reply to
Lee

My version was set to do nothing to the SSD.

Reply to
David Paste

Maybe t there are some types it does not detect correctly?

Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

One of the suggestions in the comments was that Windows may be relying on the "randomreaddiskscore" to tell whether it is an SSD or not.

Surely even bottom-of-the-barrel SSDs are a class ahead of spinning rust though?

Lee

Reply to
Lee

I think I am glad I run Linux.

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The Natural Philosopher

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