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    How often should you run a TRIM Command?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Nov 28, 2016.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

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    As the question says
     
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    It should be done automatically in Windows 10, based on drive operations - delete and then "recover" unused sectors:

    "Generates TRIM and Unmap hints for all currently unused sectors of the volume, notifying the underlying storage that the sectors are no longer needed and can be purged. This can recover unused capacity on thinly provisioned drives.

    Substitute <drive letter> in the command above with the actual drive letter of the SSD you want to TRIM.

    For example: Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter C -ReTrim -Verbose"

    See section 5 as above, or 4, also check the related links at the bottom:

    How to Optimize and Defragment Drives in Windows 10
    http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8933-optimize-defrag-drives-windows-10-a.html

    From your question, I would suggest running it manually once a week, to feel connected to the operation, and if you do a bunch of disk operations - move, delete, add files/folders to a drive, then it wouldn't hurt to run it then too :)
     
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    but when I open Disk Optimizer, it says for example, last optimization was done days ago despite me setting it to optimize them daily in its built in scheduler :rolleyes:
     
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    Maybe the schedule starts the run, but it's not needed and not actually optimized so the volume isn't marked as optimized? The system script might be doing some volume activity checking before actually running the optimize.

    You could write your own one line script with the "manual" Optimize command to run on a schedule, outside of the already scheduled system operation, and see if it forces the optimize that way.

    TRIM should run automatically when needed, you might want to check to see if TRIM operation is enabled for all your volumes, if you haven't already:

    How to ensure TRIM is enabled on Windows 10 to keep an SSD at top performance
    http://www.windowscentral.com/how-ensure-trim-enabled-windows-10-speed-ssd-performance
     
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    Well, I uhm... 'force' trim by defragging (PD14 Pro) monthly (after MS Tuesdays). :)

    I also leave all my systems on overnight (no sleep...) or longer at least once a week. This lets them do what they need to without getting in the way of what I need to do with them. ;)

    Trim is a suggestion from the O/S to the SSD. The SSD decides if it should do it or not (in the end).
     
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