Contrary to a popular rumor, solid state hard drive can still get fragmented
Contrary to popular belief, solid state drives (SSD’s) can become fragmented. This is counter-intuitive because most new machines which use solid state drives often show the information, “Never been run.” Since new SSD’s don’t fragment very easily, most users won’t need to run defrag on their Solid State Drive systems for the first few months of owning their new computers.
Yet if you have your windows operating system running on a solid state, you might want to consider running defrag analysis on your drive. In all likelihood, regular updates, restore points and other normal program operation including temporary files etc…has fragged your hard drive a few percentage points.
Although the picture shows 2% fragmentation for my C: drive, you should know when I first ran the test a couple months ago I fragged my C: drive over 10%. And as you already know, 10% can cause some acute slowdown on general tasks.
So if you ever hear anyone say, “Oh, you don’t need to run defrag on your solid state hard drive.” Let them know that SSD’s actually can get fragged. And they just probably have only experienced a new hard drive and haven’t used their system long enough to frag it.
-Tyler