Windows 10 May 2020 Update was the first major update of 2020 to the operating system. This update brought with it a lot of news and changes, but it also brought quite serious problems to the system. Some of these issues have already been fixed through a cumulative update, or with the release of the October 2020 Update, the second major update for Windows this year. However, other very important failures still remain unsolved, such as the failure that, little by little, is breaking our hard drives.
6 months have passed and Windows 10 still does not optimize the hard drives and SSD of the PC correctly. Until before the 2004 version of Windows, the system was able to distinguish between SSD and hard drives, and apply the corresponding optimizations. However, since the May 2020 Update release, a bug prevents this task from succeeding.
Windows 10 defragments your drives over and over again
The first of the errors that affects the correct functioning of Windows 10 is due to the operating system not remembering the last time it defragmented the hard drives . By not remembering the date, Windows executes the defragmentation task every time we turn on the computer, defragmenting all the drives that we have connected to the computer, including the SSDs.
Last September, Microsoft released a cumulative update (KB4571744) for Windows 10 version 2004 that directly addressed this issue and was intended to stop SSDs from defragmenting. It has worked for some users, but others still have the same problem, so little by little, the lifespan of these units is being reduced.
The second problem is related to the TRIM. This is a feature of SSDs that optimizes its performance when erasing data. Conventional hard drives cannot use this function. However, Windows 10 is trying to run it on all drives, both SSD and regular hard drives.
It is true that TRIM does not break normal hard drives, but trying to run this command on an HDD generates an error report. And little by little the event viewer fills up with these messages.
How to protect our disks and SSD
Microsoft is aware of all these problems. However, it is not known why, it does not finish solving them.
If we are concerned about the state of leaving our disks and SSDs, the first thing we have to do is make sure that we have Windows updated to the latest version and, in addition, that we have all the patches installed, both security and cumulative.
If this is the case, the SSDs will not defragment as they used to , although they will continue to be optimized, unnecessarily, every time we turn on the PC. The hard drives will keep executing the TRIM task over and over again, and in this respect there is nothing we can do but wait until Microsoft deigns to fix this error.
If you are concerned about the health of your disks and SSD, we recommend controlling it with one of these SMART programs.
