Defragging an SSD for speed
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What it does
Running a full defragmenter pass on an SSD the way you would on an old hard drive.
The honest verdict
Defrag fixes a mechanical problem: a spinning drive's read head physically traveling between scattered pieces of a file. An SSD has no moving parts and reads scattered pieces as fast as neat ones, so there is no speed to win back — but a full defrag pass still burns through write cycles, the thing an SSD has a finite budget of. Windows already knows the difference: its built-in Optimize Drives gives an SSD a TRIM pass (a housekeeping hint that marks deleted space reusable), not a defrag. Leave the schedule alone and skip the third-party defragmenters.
How Compy treats it
It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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