Is disk optimization in Norton360 harmful to SSD drives?

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There is a disk optimization function in Norton 360. I think its harmful for SSD drives.

 

Defragmentation is not necessary for SSDs. Because fragmentation does not affect SSD drive speed. SSD's have very low access times. Defragmenting an SSD reduces its life span bacause SSD memory cells have limited write-erase numbers.
The automatic defragmentation in Windows 7 skips SSDs automatically. But disk optimization function of Norton 360 doesn't.

 

I chatted with a Norton  representative. He said Norton 360 5.0 disk optimization uses Windows Disk Defragmenter to defrag the windows files so It might not harm SSD drive. I am not fully satisfied with that answer.

 

I think Norton 360 manually triggers Windows 7's defragmentation.

 

I have two questions. 

1. Is there any functions of Norton 360 than can hard my SSD drive?

 2. Is Norton 360 v5 fully compatible with SSD drives? 



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I had disabled it. I think Symantec should remove disk optimization function in Norton360 for SSD's.

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I already asked Symantec guys how N360 works with SSD (does it disable unneccesary functions itself or an user must do it?) http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/File-Cleanup-on-a-SSD-drive-and-other-quot-disk-performance-quot/m-p/615337#M62429 but there was no answer from Symantec folks

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There is a disk optimization function in Norton 360. I think its harmful for SSD drives.

 

Defragmentation is not necessary for SSDs. Because fragmentation does not affect SSD drive speed. SSD's have very low access times. Defragmenting an SSD reduces its life span bacause SSD memory cells have limited write-erase numbers.
The automatic defragmentation in Windows 7 skips SSDs automatically. But disk optimization function of Norton 360 doesn't.

 

I chatted with a Norton  representative. He said Norton 360 5.0 disk optimization uses Windows Disk Defragmenter to defrag the windows files so It might not harm SSD drive. I am not fully satisfied with that answer.

 

I think Norton 360 manually triggers Windows 7's defragmentation.

 

I have two questions. 

1. Is there any functions of Norton 360 than can hard my SSD drive?

 2. Is Norton 360 v5 fully compatible with SSD drives? 



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It doesn't disable disk optimizations. I can see Norton360 tried to defrag my SSD in Security History.

I have suspicions about Idle Scans reducing my SSD drive's lifespan too. 

6

I am sure you can disable full idle scan and use only quick idle scan - this is absolutely enough for the protection.

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SSD's are automatically excluded.  See post.  http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360-v6-Public-Beta/Disabling-Optimization-for-SSDs/m-p/574234/highlight/true#M702

 

Tim

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sont13 wrote:

SSD's are automatically excluded.  See post.  http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360-v6-Public-Beta/Disabling-Optimization-for-SSDs/m-p/574234/highlight/true#M702

 

Tim

You are wrong, I just enabled disk optimization in N360 on my system with SSD and immediately got the warning message

 

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And when I have clicked on Fix now:

 

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The automatic defragmantation in Windows7 excludes SSD's but Norton360 doesn't !!!

Norton360's disk optimization manually triggers Windows's defragmentation when PC is idle and  defrags all disks.