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A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD

by PatrolX on 8/28/20, 7:04 PM with 3 comments

• by satya71 on 8/28/20, 9:08 PM

  Bug introduced in May 2020 update (Version 2004). Unfortunately, Microsoft's QA strategy today is testing on Home SKU users as guinea pigs. I use Windows 10 Pro and delay feature updates by 180 days at least.

  You can do this for Home versions too, by using regedit.[1]

  [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/27/how-to-delay-feature-updat...

• by colejohnson66 on 8/28/20, 7:20 PM

  I keep seeing this reported, but are we sure it’s defragmenting? It says “Not Optimized”, and Windows knows to run TRIM, not a defrag on SSDs.

  EDIT: Apparently, it does defrag if you have “Volume Snapshots” enabled, but I don’t know anyone who uses that feature.

  > But if volume snapshots are enabled (so you can revert to a backup using System Restore), it will in fact defrag the drive even if it is an SSD.