can't remember when I last defragged the drive - 2 years ? of the 21.8gb used space 8gb needed to be defragged, and it took 2 hours used the free Piriform Defraggler - http://www.piriform.com/defraggler ~ "SSD drives are now handled correctly when drives are queued for defrag." and don't forget CCleaner also Recuva - same site also used the System File Defragmenter which defrags on 'next boot' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals - a Lot of utility programs all free and yes, there is a noticeable increase in speed of operations so, how often do you defrag your drive/s ?
Every couple years depending on write/erase activity. It really comes down to how often you write/erase to the disk. With normal user activity you shouldn't need to defrag as often as those options listed in the polls.
The win7 defrag utility is able to be scheduled, I set it to run every Sunday at 1 o'clock in the morning.
That's conventional wisdom. However some claim that in spite of conventional wisdom, SSDs perform better when not all fragged... which has been my perception also. Defragging an SSD is MUCH faster than on a spinner.
"So, no, you should not defrag an SSD. And performing one will actually reduce the life of your drive. All of the SSD manufacturerâs know of this problem and they have come up with an optimization technique with the use of the TRIM command." http://helpdeskgeek.com/featured-posts/should-you-defrag-an-ssd/ SSDs / flash drives have a limited life, remember seeing that on a flash I bought but couldn't think of an easy way to keep a record of my use of it if at some point such drives fail, can the data on the drive be accessed, and how ?