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I need to know this, as I hear Defragmentation can damage an SSD if it is performed on it. Now we know Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 possess the Automatic Maintenance routine, where it starts to run some maintenance tasks when the computer is idle (apparently after 4 minutes of not detecting user activity with the keyboard or mouse and usually only once per hour).
Now my current computer runs a HDD, and it does the regular Defrag every week or so when it can try and do so.
However... SSDs can't be defragged, they have their own mechanism. TRIM.
My planned computer build involves an SSD used as a OS Drive which also holds the browser and Anti-Virus Software Suite (which is going to be Kaspersky. Cause its decent and better than Norton). And also a HDD for storage of photos, videos, games, documents, etc.
So it has one thing that needs TRIM and can't be defragmented and one thing that can't use TRIM and needs defragmentation.
Does Windows 8.1's Automatic Maintenance differenciate between the two and just run TRIM on the SSD and Defrag on the HDD without performing the wrong thing on the other?
Now my current computer runs a HDD, and it does the regular Defrag every week or so when it can try and do so.
However... SSDs can't be defragged, they have their own mechanism. TRIM.
My planned computer build involves an SSD used as a OS Drive which also holds the browser and Anti-Virus Software Suite (which is going to be Kaspersky. Cause its decent and better than Norton). And also a HDD for storage of photos, videos, games, documents, etc.
So it has one thing that needs TRIM and can't be defragmented and one thing that can't use TRIM and needs defragmentation.
Does Windows 8.1's Automatic Maintenance differenciate between the two and just run TRIM on the SSD and Defrag on the HDD without performing the wrong thing on the other?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self-Built
- CPU
- i5 661 @ 3.33GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe
- Memory
- 2x2 Corsair Vengence 1600MHz @ 1333MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- ASUS GTX 660 GDDR5 2GB Direct CU II OC
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 by 1080
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 500GB Samsung Spinpoint
- PSU
- Corsair HX520
- Browser
- Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Kaspersky Pure 3.0