
Defragmentation may decrease lifespan for certain technologies, e.g. However, defragmentation is not helpful on storage devices such as solid state drives, USB drives or SD cards that use flash memory to increase speeds, as these drives do not use a head. As a result of the decreased read and write times, Microsoft Drive Optimizer decreases system startup times for systems starting from magnetic storage devices such as a hard drive. Defragmenting a disk minimizes head travel, which reduces the time it takes to read files from and write files to the disk. Use the fsutil dirty query command to determine if a volume is dirty.Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation. Run CHKDSK on a dirty volume to resolve this.


G Optimize the storage tiers on the specified volumes. E volume_name(s) Perform the operation on all volumes Except those specified. To specify multiple volumes separate the names with spaces. Volume The drive letter or mount point path of the volume(s) to be defragmented or analyzed. Track an operation already in progress on a volume: Perform the proper optimization for each media type:
