How do I turn off the defragmentation of my main drive?

Hello Aravindh,
I think you misunderstand what I am asking. My computer runs MSWindows10, its maqin hard drive is labelled C:. However, this is not a standard mechanical disk drive, it is a Solid State Drive (SSD).

These drives have two main properties, the first is that their seek time is measured in nano-seconds whereas mechanical disk drives seek times are measured in milli-seconds. That's a million times faster for the SSD to find data.

The second property is that the SSD can only write to a data cell a small number of times before the cell stops recording data. Therefore, the SSD has a micro-controller embeded in it to attempt to even out writing data to the cells, and this means the data is stored in a fragmented way deliberately. It also means that if a deragmentation program is run on it, moving the data does not actually defrag the storage, but it does write data to the SSD's cells unnecessarily and that uses up the limited write cycles of the SSD.

So what I want to do is to turn the defragmentation facility OFF to prevent unnecessarily shortening the life of my Solid State Drive. So my question stands: How do I turn off AVG's defragmentation?

Hello Aravindh,
I think you misunderstand what I am asking. My computer runs MSWindows10, its maqin hard drive is labelled C:. However, this is not a standard mechanical disk drive, it is a Solid State Drive (SSD).

These drives have two main properties, the first is that their seek time is measured in nano-seconds whereas mechanical disk drives seek times are measured in milli-seconds. That's a million times faster for the SSD to find data.

The second property is that the SSD can only write to a data cell a small number of times before the cell stops recording data. Therefore, the SSD has a micro-controller embeded in it to attempt to even out writing data to the cells, and this means the data is stored in a fragmented way deliberately. It also means that if a deragmentation program is run on it, moving the data does not actually defrag the storage, but it does write data to the SSD's cells unnecessarily and that uses up the limited write cycles of the SSD.

So what I want to do is to turn the defragmentation facility OFF to prevent unnecessarily shortening the life of my Solid State Drive. So my question stands: How do I turn off AVG's defragmentation?

My Acer Laptop has two on board drive bays.
I also have an solid state "C" drive.
but I have a secondary -standard "E" disc drive installed in bay 2.
OS lives on C drive.
Everything else lives on "E" drive 
I would like  PC Tune up to leave My solid state "C" drive alone,
but to defrag my "E" drive. is this possible, or not? it seems to only want to deal with C drive, IE, there appears to be  no option for tick boxes to select other drives (If that makes sense) . Will AVG not do this? Security does scan both drives, so I don't see why this would not be possible too.

Hello Harry,
We regret for the inconvenience caused. We keep you informed that normally defragmentation takes longer time depend upon your Hard disk storage. Please try to run the Windows defragmentation once and check whether your hard disk has been heavily fragmented. If the issue persist, please try to restart your system and click on all functions. You can able to see Diskfragmention options on PC Tune up interface. Please try to run Disk fragmentation again. If the issue persists, please let us know, we are here to help you. Thank you

AVG Tune Up stated that it would defragment my hard drive. Presumably that is labelled C:\ by MSWindows 10. However, my C:\ drive is an SSD, and as such it has a finite number of write cycles before it stops working. How can I switch off the defragmenting facility in AVG Tune UP ??

Thanks,
Harry

My Acer Laptop has two on board drive bays.
I also have an solid state "C" drive.
but I have a secondary -standard "E" disc drive installed in bay 2.
OS lives on C drive.
Everything else lives on "E" drive 
I would like  PC Tune up to leave My solid state "C" drive alone,
but to defrag my "E" drive. is this possible, or not? it seems to only want to deal with C drive, IE, there appears to be  no option for tick boxes to select other drives (If that makes sense) . Will AVG not do this? Security does scan both drives, so I don't see why this would not be possible too.

OK Harry, No probs… Pleased to see that you appear to be now sorted. Thanks for returning to the Community & posting.
AVG Guru

Hello Harry,
You can uncheck the disk fragmentation feature from "one click maintenance" .
Please find "Settings" at the top of the AVG PC Tune Up window and find "1 Click maintenance" in the left pane.
Click it and uncheck disk fragmentation.
Please feel free to contact us for any further assistance.
Thank you.

Hello Sreedevi Padmakumar,
Thank you for your concise instructions. I have now turned off the disk fragmentation.

As I was doing this I noticed this message against disk defragmentation: “Solid-state drives (SSDs) are not analysed or defragmented as this would shorten their service life.” So I needn’t have worried, because the AVG product had it covered already.

Thank you for your prompt and accurate instructions!
Harry

Hello Harry,
We regret for the inconvenience caused. We keep you informed that normally defragmentation takes longer time depend upon your Hard disk storage. Please try to run the Windows defragmentation once and check whether your hard disk has been heavily fragmented. If the issue persist, please try to restart your system and click on all functions. You can able to see Diskfragmention options on PC Tune up interface. Please try to run Disk fragmentation again. If the issue persists, please let us know, we are here to help you. Thank you

Hello Gary,
We can certainly take a look into this.
Please open AVG PC TuneUp > All Functions > Defragment Disk and let us know the drives you see.
If possible, share a screenshot of the Defragment Disk page to proceed further.
You can post the screenshot here on your topic. Click on 'Answer' & then click on the 'Image' [mountain symbol] & follow the instructions.
Regards,
Alok.