Boot Defrag on SSHD with Windows 8.1

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Hi guys, it's me again. I was wondering, should I enable or disable Windows built-in Boot Defragmentation on a HP Envy 15 Laptop running Windows 8.1 64-Bit Home off of a Seagate 1TB SSHD (Hybrid Drive) with an 8GB NAND Solid-State cache? What woulld be the pros and cons of enabling vs. disabling boot-defragmentation? I've already decided to disable the automatic full-disk-defrag function and just occasionally defrag manually using Defraggler, but I'm not sure what to do about Windows Boot Defrag. Also, what about the actual "Optimize" function in the Windows Disk Defragmenter, can this help me with performance over time on a SSHD?
 
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the SSD portion of the SSHD drive is controlled by the firmware. Windows Optimize/Defrag will not effect the SSD portion.

Windows7 calls it Defrag and Windows8 calls it Optimize, either one will only work on the HDD part of the SSHD drive.

As for the Boot Defrag, you can disable it.
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the SSD portion of the SSHD drive is controlled by the firmware. Windows Optimize/Defrag will not effect the SSD portion.

Windows7 calls it Defrag and Windows8 calls it Optimize, either one will only work on the HDD part of the SSHD drive.

As for the Boot Defrag, you can disable it.
 
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Okay, so you say I can disable Boot Defrag, but my question is, WHY should I do so? Is it BETTER to have Boot-Defrag disabled, or will leaving it enabled make my boot-times even faster? Or is it just completely pointless either way on a SSHD?
 
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