Disable automatic drive defragmentation in Windows 11, 10, ...!
Automatic drive defragmentation in Windows 11, 10, ... and MS Server can lead to unnecessary performance costs, especially with external hard drives.
The automatic drive defragmentation in the optimization can lead to unnecessary performance costs, especially with external USB hard drives . Even if it is an SSD hard drive, these are not simply optimized, but defragmented directly. Optimizing and defragmenting are not the same thing and are quite time consuming!
You can find ► the drive optimization in Windows 11 in the control panel F3 and search term Optimize. The defragmentation / optimization options can be adjusted at any time or initiated manually!
(Image-1) Windows 11, 10, ... prevent defragmentation of external hard drives!
2.) More tips and information about defragmentation and Co.!
Defragmentation is an old relic and will hardly be used in future drives. It is all the more important that you do not defragment drives that do not need this. Here are other tips that might be of interest to you.
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