Unsolicited defragging of SSD

[Mr. Pedantic]

I just ran MyDefrag for the first time since I reinstalled Windows on this computer. I have a Vertex 2 SSD as the OS drive, in 1 partition. I also have 2 Western Digital Caviar Blue drives, divided into 3 partitions containing data.

I ran the Data Disk Monthly on the HDD partitions, and left it running overnight. However, when I checked in the morning, the program was running the script on my SSD partition as well. I closed the program and ran it again, making sure to check only the 3 HDD partitions and not the SSD partition. But again, after running the defrag script on the HDDs the program started working on the SSD again.

What's going on? I don't want to kill my drive with huge amounts of write cycles...

[Darlis]

MyDefrag automatically creates scheduled tasks to defragment all drives, unless you have unchecked this option in the installer. You should be able to see and remove these tasks in the Windows Task Scheduler.

[jeroen]

after running the defrag script on the HDDs the program started working on the SSD again.

Please note that the scheduled task and the screensaver have their own scripts and their own settings, they do not use the choices you make in the Windows interface. The best thing to do is to modify the "Settings.MyD" script to permanently exclude your SSD disks, this will work for any and all scripts you run after that. See the ExcludeVolumes script command.

For more information about "killing your drive" see Will MyDefrag reduce the lifespan of my flash/SSD memory disk?

[maxxyme]

Hello,

So is it correct to add this line:

Code:

ExcludeVolumes(Name("D:"))

in my Settings.MyD file, in order to exclude my SSD which letter is D:?

Thanks.

[Darlis]

Yes, that's correct.