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    Uncheck Defragmentation / m17x r3 owners w/ SSD in their order

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by maxheap, Nov 21, 2011.

  1. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    People I was just wasting time and figured out m17x r3 comes with scheduled defragmentation... if you already have an SSD in your laptop, just uncheck it for the sake of your SSD, defragmenting SSD will reduce its lifespan! :(
     
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    Is your SSD actually in the list for scheduled defragmentation?
    (e.g. my SSDs in RAID 0 are C: drive which is not listed)

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  3. maxheap

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    I have just one disk, an SSD
     
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    Is it in the "Select Disks For Schedule" list?
     
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    Windows should automically exclude SSDs from defrag.
     
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    it has just the select all disks button, nothing else, does this mean it won't defrag the SSD?
     
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    Indeed. It will not schedule to automatically defrag the SSD, though you can still click 'Defragment disk' in the main window to force a manual defrag.
     
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    I see, thanks! I was scared for a moment back there :) +rep
     
    maxheap, Nov 21, 2011
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