Do solid state drives need to get defragmented

No.  There is no fragmentation issue with solid state drives, and, because they have a certain (very high) lifetime number of total writes  possible before wearing out, defragmentation is actually potentially harmful.  Windows knows enough not to attempt to defragment an SSD.  That is not true of some 3rd party defragmentation tools which would run an unnecessary defragment operation if told to do so.

 There is a different type of cleanup operation called 'trim' that is applicable to SSDs and modern versions of Windows will take care of that. See

http://www.buildcomputers.net/trim-support.html if interested.

 There is a different type of cleanup operation called 'trim' that is applicable to SSDs and modern versions of Windows will take care of that. See

http://www.buildcomputers.net/trim-support.html if interested.

Dear friend,

Thanks again and earn my great appreciation!

I ran the test described in the website from your provided link and the DOS Command Prompt returned the error value as 0, which confirmed the presence of 'Trim' in my Windows and any optimization on my solid state drive will be automatically executed on my laptop by Windows 10 in the background as and when needed. 

I shall never need to run an analysis on its fragmentation and order a defragmentation.

Regards.

CA. Shyamal Mitra

New Delhi - India

No.  There is no fragmentation issue with solid state drives, and, because they have a certain (very high) lifetime number of total writes  possible before wearing out, defragmentation is actually potentially harmful.  Windows knows enough not to attempt to defragment an SSD.  That is not true of some 3rd party defragmentation tools which would run an unnecessary defragment operation if told to do so.

 There is a different type of cleanup operation called 'trim' that is applicable to SSDs and modern versions of Windows will take care of that. See

http://www.buildcomputers.net/trim-support.html if interested.

Thank you for your kind and detailed reply. I appreciate the quality of your content.

I have copied the link provided by you and visited the site and have copied

the instructions therein on a notepad and wish to carry out the test whether the function 'TRIM' exists in Windows 10 64 Bit that runs on my laptop. If it does, then I do not have any further plans to think on. If it does not, then I shall ask you once more again in this forum whether to tweak the OS and carry out the change.

Thanking you again.

CA. Shyamal Mitra

New Delhi - India

The SSD should not have a defragmentation program run on it. The Windows native Defragmentation and Optimization program will provide the appropriate action for the SSD in the background.

Thanks for your kind reply.

Windows 10 has not yet popped up a message on the Action Centre for defragmentation, and I suppose the reason to be the only a day's of operation since the laptop's purchase.

If Windows 10, like all its preceding versions, configures and schedules the defragmentation program on a weekly basis, I do not have any thing to ponder about.

However, another learned member has opined against your view and I think that I try out the suggested steps from the website he has presented in his reply and see what comes out.

Thank you again.

CA. Shyamal Mitra

New Delhi - India.

The SSD should not have a defragmentation program run on it. The Windows native Defragmentation and Optimization program will provide the appropriate action for the SSD in the background.