A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

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Post by PatrolX » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD
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Re: A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

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Post by colejohnson66 » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

I keep seeing this reported, but are we sure it’s defragmenting? It says “Not Optimized”, and Windows knows to run TRIM, not a defrag on SSDs.

EDIT: Apparently, it does defrag if you have “Volume Snapshots” enabled, but I don’t know anyone who uses that feature.

> But if volume snapshots are enabled (so you can revert to a backup using System Restore), it will in fact defrag the drive even if it is an SSD.

Re: A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

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Post by dmitrygr » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

I keep seeing this reported, but are we sure it’s defragmenting? It says “Not Optimized”, and Windows knows to run TRIM, not a defrag on SSDs. EDIT: Apparently, it does defrag if you have “Volume Snapshots” enabled, but I don’t know anyone who uses that feature. > But if volume snapshots are enabled (so you can revert to a backup using System Restore), it will in fact defrag the drive even if it is an SSD.

> But if volume snapshots are enabled (so you can revert to a backup using System Restore), it will in fact defrag the drive even if it is an SSD.

this implies that if System Restore is on, volume snapshots are enabled

System Restore is on by default

Re: A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

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Post by satya71 » Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

Bug introduced in May 2020 update (Version 2004). Unfortunately, Microsoft's QA strategy today is testing on Home SKU users as guinea pigs. I use Windows 10 Pro and delay feature updates by 180 days at least.

You can do this for Home versions too, by using regedit.[1]

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/27/how-to-delay-feature-updat...