I have HP red laptop 15-fd0083wm ssd recognized as hdd in defrag app on update Windows 11

[KarenHere]

I have the red hp laptop 15-fd0083wm 128GB. It is installed with Windows 11 Home with the newest update, 24H2. I have been here and have done all the HP updates you give. The laptop runs well, but in the defrag app, the SSD is recognized as HDD and wants to defrag it accordingly. I have tried everything I can find online to fix this. I have resorted to a third party app, that does see the SSD and does a successful TRIM. I have tried  winsat formal and have tried winsat diskformal in CMD as administrator, but nothing seems to help. The defrag/optimize app still sees the SSD as HDD and wants to defrag it. I see also in CMD through a command that TRIM is enabled. How can this error be fixed in the defrag app? Earlier I did read here that someone was asking about this particular SSD and if it could be replaced. It cannot. It is seated in the motherboard. Maybe that is why the app doesn't see it right. In task manager it sees it as SSD (UFS). In Device Manager, the SSD is WDC SDINFEO4-128, a Western Digital, maybe? Western Digital Dashboard has turned over to SandDisk dashboard. It does not recognize the drive. I cannot find an update for it anywhere. Maybe there isn't one. Just worried about the defrag app not working with this particular SSD installed. How does it get trimmed? Is there a fix? 

Oh! I did reinstall Windows 11. At first in the defrag app, it said it was thinly provisioned, but after all the updates, it says it is HDD. I forget the command now, but someone said to put a command in CMD to see if Trim was allowed. It said it wasn't and that it was not thinly provisioned. So, one command reports Trim is enabled, the other command reports Trim is not allowed. hmm

Karen

[banhien]

@KarenHere 

No, please do NOT defrag SSD, you will destroy it. More info

              Should i defragment an SSD?

Regards.

[KarenHere]

Yes, I know that, but thanks. I put the newest Ubuntu LInux on it instead. The storage left on the SSD after installing Windows 11 and all the updates wasn't much which may be the cause. The SSD was more than half full. It could have been struggling. It is doing well with the smaller Linux OS. Linux does recognize the SSD, and I can run a Trim. It is also automatically scheduled to run a Trim once a week. I'm happy with that. 

Thanks again. 🙂

I have installed Windows 11 on that laptop 3 times with the same results every time, no matter what I've tried, which was a lot of stuff.

[banhien]

@KarenHere 

TRIM in Linux may kill the SSD because PHYSICALLY it is same hardware.

Regards.

[KarenHere]

Ok, Banhien, you think it would kill the SSD to have it trimmed even in Linux, because it’s the same hardware. Hmmmm that is interesting. It is not a replaceable disk but a chip thing on the motherboard, I read here on someone’s post. So what should I do if you can't defrag it either? When I had windows, I used a third party app that recognized it as an SSD, and it seemed to trim it accordingly. So what should I do? Any ideas?

*When I had Windows, it recognized it as SSD in Task Manager and in Device Manager, just not in the Defrag app. Before it got all the updates, it said it was Thinly Provissioned in the Defrag app. 

[banhien]

@KarenHere 

No thing more I can say

Regards.