When to defrag a hard drive, TRIM an SSD and perform other storage tasks, or not
WE STILL GET quite a few questions about when and how to optimize storage devices. Easy answer: The care and feeding of storage devices is either taken care of automatically by Windows, or it's simply unnecessary. Mostly.
Microsoft is telling the truth, if there’s hardly ever any need to check for errors anymore. And most of the time it’s external media that may have been removed before writes were finished.
administrator, CHKDSK is still a handy way to check drives after a power failure. You can do
