Defragged SSD

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Fergal

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I've accidentally defragged my Intel 180gb SSD and now its running slow.

I've checked online for a solution to restore proformance but there seems to be quiet a lot of conflicting advice for this and I'm not sure what's the best way to go about it.
Is it best to do a secure erase after installing windows on my 2tb hd, and if so what software is best to use to do so.
 
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Fergal

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Yeah I've seen that, I'll give it a go after work see if it helps ;-)

Is there away to do it without erasing the ssd do u know?
 
PaulH

PaulH

Bright Spark
I think (its been a while since I used it) there is an option to optimise the SSD while in Windows, you can but give it a try, if not you may have to wipe it, but i'm almost sure you wont have to :)
 
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Fergal

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Cheers, I'll give you feedback on how it goes later, I'm at work til 3 so won't be for a while.
 
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Tight Git

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You've got me worried now, as I have 2 SSD's in my computer.

My understanding is that defragging is not necessary, but that's different from it actually doing harm!

Can someone explain, please?
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
Tight Git said:
You've got me worried now, as I have 2 SSD's in my computer.

My understanding is that defragging is not necessary, but that's different from it actually doing harm!

Can someone explain, please?
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Defragging the SSD is not necessary as you say,as it doesn't do any good,but it shouldn't do any harm,not in the short term anyway,but in the long term it could shorten the life of the SSD because of it's limited writes.What happened in this case though,I have no idea,but it's very unusual,so I wouldn't worry about it.
But,all the more reason to make sure scheduled defrag is turned off.
 
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Tight Git

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Many thanks for putting my mind at rest.

I have Norton 360 which defrags by default, presumably because SSD's are still a small minority, so I've now deselected that function.
 
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