How to disable defragmentation of ssd or hard drives in windows 10

Windows 10 is capable of detecting SSDs automatically, although it is not able to completely disable defragmentation on these drives. Defragmentation is not recommended on SSDs, so we have prepared this post to explain how to disable defragmentation of SSDs or hard drives in Windows 10.

We explain in a very simple way how to disable defragmentation of SSD or hard drives in Windows 10

Windows 10 continues to defragment SSDs in some situations. The Windows "Optimize Drives" tool defragments SSDs once a month in the event that volume backups are enabled. Those backup copies help us to return the system to a previous state in the event of any type of problem. If we do not want Windows 10 to defragment the SSDs once a month, we must disable the system restore, although with this we are left without the possibility of using the backups to solve a possible future problem.

We recommend reading our post on Why is it not necessary to defragment an SSD?

To disable system restoration in Windows 10 we have to follow a series of very simple steps, first of all, we go to the start menu and look for the " System " option.

Now we go to the section "System protection ".

Click on " Configure ".

We check the box " Disable system protection ".

Finally, we click on " Accept ".

With this you will have deactivated the system restoration, and Windows 10 will no longer defragment the SSD drives. Of course this will not affect the TRIM system, which is responsible for maintaining maximum performance on SSDs. TRIM marks empty memory blocks, so that the SSD writes the new data to them directly, allowing it to work much faster. Windows automatically manage the TRIM, with this you will not have to worry about anything, your SSD will always be optimized to perform at its best under Windows 10.

In the case of mechanical hard disks, we can program the frequency with which we want the automatic defragmentation to be done, this way you will not have to worry about its maintenance.

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