How to Optimize Drives for Performance in Windows 8
It is highly recommended that you regularly check and optimize disk drivers on your Windows 8 PC. Not only will this increase the performance of your PC, but it will increase the overall lifetime of your drives. Optimizing drives in Windows 8 has become so easier, all thanks to the inbuilt options to do so. So, here’s how you can do that:
I. Optimizing Drives for Performance in Windows 8:
1. Go to the Start Screen by pressing the Windows Logo key.
2. Search for Defrag and click on the result shown in the following screenshot:
3. Click on the Drive you want to optimize and hit Analyze.
4. It’ll first analyze the drive before optimizing.
5. Once the analysis is done, click Optimize.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions if you get any.
7. And you should be done!
Cheers! Your PC has just been optimized and you should see an increase in the performance of your PC!
Can’t you just click “Optimize”? When you click Optimize, it will automatically Analyze. I used to click Analyze first but then realized it would analyze anyway even if I did an analyze prior to clicking optimize.
You’re right, but since this tutorial is for beginners, we’ve to add that Analyze step as well.
Thanks!
You’ve forgotten to mention it’s only necessary on rotating drives. With an SSD, you 1) don’t need it at all (since “seek” is as fast on a fragmented volume as on a new unfragmented one), and 2) you’re actually KILLING the SSD quickly by doing many more writes to it than you could. And since SSD’s tend to have a limited number of suvivable writes, you’ll shorten it’s lfetime dramatically. For MLC SSD’s the lifespan is usually around 5000 writes for every cell.
Hey Mark,
Thank you for your useful tip. Well, SSDs aren’t in much use so generally when we say storage device we refer to traditional hard drives.
Thanks for stopping by and reading this!