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(Solved) Managing partitions of the internal HD
Boggin:
While you say there's no rush for Shane to look at the Dynamic disks, he hasn't forgotten about you, it's just been the pressure of his computer business that has stopped him getting back to the forum.
If you ever intend to upgrade to Win 10, from that article, Win 10 won't be able to read dynamic disks so you would have to convert them, but if you are unsure how to proceed - wait until Shane gets back to you.
You don't use a defragmenter on SSDs as there's nothing mechanical on them, so turn Windows schedule off - I only defrag my HDD once a month if over 2% fragmented as over defragging can take its toll on a HDD so have never known why Windows has that default set to weekly.
However, you can get Hybrid SSDs where part of it is mechanical and Windows just defrags that bit.
Win 7 has something called TRIM to auto look after SSDs and this article will tell you how to check if it is enabled and how to enable it if not.
http://mywindowshub.com/check-enable-disable-ssd-trim-support-windows-7-windows-8-1/
I've never heard of Wise Clean, but it still puts the onus on the user as to whether to delete such files and knowing if they should be deleted.
Lady:
Thank you, Boggin, that's very informative. I knew about the SSD, I gather from the status window of the defrag scheduler that W7 did not defrag my SSD. (I did :shocked: before I knew this, with Wise Disk Cleaner. I changed to O&O Defrag because it gives a warning when you try.) And my TRIM is enabled. Great tip!
Just read an article on a Dutch IT site stating that you should defrag daily if you use the pc intensively. See, that's why I turned to you guys. The internet states so many different views. Very confusing.
We'll wait for Shane. I know it's because of his busy schedule. I'm cool. :artist:
Do tell me if I ask too many questions. It's precisely the confusion on the net that I keep having them.
Have a nice evening! :cheesy:
Boggin:
I only get about 2% fragmentation a month and I'm on my laptop constantly.
From a recent Google about over defragging, it looks like I may have read an article that described the thrashing about when you defrag, but you would get equal thrashing when it has to look for bits in a fragmented drive.
I don't always defrag if the Analyse is small.
I've had this machine since Dec.2011 and while 5 - 6yrs is reckoned to be an average life span of a HDD, HD Sentinel gives this one a pretty decent bill of health.
BTW - Can you see the Applaud and Smite buttons in my profile as they are missing for me and I've seen the same for other users.
Lady:
Good for you that you have such a healthy HD! 100%, wow! I'm going to do the HD Sentinel check tomorrow, see how I have been doing in two years. :)
Yes, that sounds perfectly logical to me, to only defrag when the analysis is over 2%.
I can see your applaud and smite buttons just fine. Cannot see mine, so my educated guess would be that you cannot see them because you may not give yourself karma points all the time, hahaha.
Does a smite take one karma point off??
Boggin:
I can see yours fine, but not for some other members.
I've contacted Shane about this as well as not getting email notifications, but he's that busy of late, he's probably forgotten about it :)
I suppose a Smite could take one off but it may also show it as something else - how else would anyone know that someone disapproved of a post.
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