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However, you'll still see "Solid state drive" listed under the Optimize Drives tool, because Windows can also perform different maintenance tasks to optimize your SSD, including the ability to inform the drive that certain blocks of data are no longer in use and can be erased making them writable again.Īlthough Windows 10 can detect and configure the appropriate optimization options for storage devices, if you have a traditional hard drive or an external drive that it's now always connected to your system, you should run maintenance on them manually.

They only use banks of memory to store data, which means that these drives don't need to be defragmented (you shouldn't defragment SSDs, as it may cause performance issues and even reduce the life of the drive). They don't have any motors or moving parts. Remember that these optimization options only apply to traditional rotating platters hard drives.
