Korean researchers have identified the cause of performance degradation when reading fragmented files on Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and discovered a fundamental technique to resolve the issue.

I recently moved to W8.1 and in the process of searching for defrag information about HDDs, I came across this mention of a SSD defrag bug in W8.1. Yes, it appears it still is. I just did a clean ...

You've likely heard before that you should never defragment your SSD. Conventional wisdom says not only do solid state drives not need defragging, doing so would cause unnecessary writes to the drive.

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Auslogics Software has just released Disk Defrag Pro 4.1 - an updated version of its professional defragmenter with expanded support for solid state drives. Sydney, Australia - October 22nd, 2012 - ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

I was making Windows slower, and the drive was barely benefiting.

With the release of Windows 10 version 2004, the Windows Defragger has become a mess as it starts to defrag SSD drives too often, perform trim on non-SSD drives, and forgets when it last optimized a ...

Question: I’ve been using Windows forever and as part of my annual device cleanup process, I defragment the hard drive. That supposedly makes it run faster. But do I need to do that with a new SSD ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug in the Windows 10 version 2004 defragger that caused SSD drives to be defragmented too often. In June 2020, after the Windows 10 May 2020 Update was released, we reported ...