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Defrag a HD with Optane?

MightyUncleanMightyUnclean Member EpicPosts: 3,531
in Hardware

Can you defrag a hard drive that has Optane? When I try to do so with the default Windows 10 defrag program, it recognizes the drive as an SSD and doesn't give an option to defrag.


Thanks!

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  • AmazingAveryAmazingAvery Age of Conan AdvocateMember UncommonPosts: 7,188
    edited January 2019
    No need to defrag SSD's - https://www.pcgamer.com/should-i-defrag-my-ssd/

    The entire basis of fragmented data relies on the fact that your storage device uses moving parts to access data. Since SSDs have no moving parts, hence “Solid State”, there's no seek time or rotational latency.

    Because of the way SSDs work, not only does data not become fragmented, but running a defragmentation utility will actually burn through the program/erase cycles and potentially cause premature 'death' of your SSDs.

    The good news is that any defragmentation program worth using should also detect the presence of an SSD and warn you not to defrag it. 


    [Deleted User]MrMelGibson



  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,501
    edited January 2019
    A hard drive does not and cannot have Optane.  (Well, it's not technologically impossible, but no one has built such a drive.)  Do you mean that you have both an Optane cache drive and a separate hard drive, basically attempting to be a higher end version of one of those ridiculous "solid state hybrid drives"?  If so, then while those drives can be defragmented, it wipes the cache, so it's not clear that it's desirable to defragment them.

    The real solution is to get a proper solid state drive.
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