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Intel 160Gb SSD has a lot of misaligned files and is fragmented

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I have an Intel 160Gb X-25M SSD that I've been using for about 1 year and it's been great. Last night when I ran my System Mechanic program, it said that my system drive (Intel SSD is my only drive) has 45,000 misaligned files (19Gb) and 3340 fragmented files (6.77Gb). I thought how can that be since I have TRIM enabled. So I did the cmd prompt query "disabledeletenotify" to make sure TRIM was enabled and it was. Next I put about 10Gb of data in the recycle bin and then emptied it to see if I had a lot of hard drive activity (to verify that TRIM was doing it's job) and didn't notice much activity on the hard drive light at all. So I'm wondering if TRIM is really working. Does anyone have any ideas? I've never seen this in System Mechanic before. I also ran the optimizer in the Intel toolbox which took about 2 secs, but didn't help the problem.

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Thanks guys, your posts have answered my questions. I will just ignore what System Mechanic is telling me. Like I said, I have NOT let System mechanic do anything with these files. I wanted to find these answers first.

If your are concerned weather the SSD , there is a tool made for SSD to check and repair alignment , It's made by a company call Paragone , Google it , PAT. Paragone alignment Tool.