Defragmentation on ssd in windows 7 yes or no

[hpenvy1]

When i have installed a Samsung 850 evos ssd 500 gb, do i then have to make any changes in windows 7 home premium 64 bit, to ensure the best performance from the ssd? I have read a couple of different oppinions about the subject defragmentation, but what is your opinion about that, when using a installed ssd? Should it be on or off, and also are there any other changes that perhaps should be made?

Best regards to everyone

[OsbourneVernonL · Accepted solution]

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@hpenvy1 wrote:

When i have installed a Samsung 850 evos ssd 500 gb, do i then have to make any changes in windows 7 home premium 64 bit, to ensure the best performance from the ssd? I have read a couple of different oppinions about the subject defragmentation, but what is your opinion about that, when using a installed ssd? Should it be on or off, and also are there any other changes that perhaps should be made?

Best regards to everyone

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Defragging of an SSD should never take place. If im not mistaken samsung also delivers software suited to ensure that the SSD runs at optimal performance with user input. If defragging is schedualed on your win7 machine and the SSD is your main drive, namely where your OS resides you should turn it off. I do beleive win7 is smart enough to realise that an SSD is installed but im not sure, as for win8.1 this is done automatically.

[hpenvy1]

Ooops sorry for not writing back to you as soon as you replied, but i however found out that Windows 7, didnt at its own disable the defragmentation, so i did it on my own. 

And thank you again for replying at the time.

best regards

hpenvy1