Using CCleaner on SSD?

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I just ordered a new desktop, one that comes with a 512GB PCIe x4 SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

It's an overdue upgrade for someone like me who has had systems with just HDDs for 20 years.

With HDDs, I defragged them and ran CCleaner on a near daily basis. I've read not to defrag SSDs, but should I still be using CCleaner with one?

Thanks for any advice.
 
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CCleaner is ok as a junk cleaner, and, I use it perhaps once a month to empty 1-2 GB of accumulated worthless junk..as intended. (you do not want to be wiping free space on an SSD needlessly, which are worthless /needless/wasted write cycles, etc)

Drives from Windows 7 onward have not really been required to be defragged any more perhaps quarterly for years now...; 1% fragmentation is not really 'fragmented'.(And you do not defrag SSDs....)

THere is certainly no need to empty trash daily, but, it is not a defrag anyway, and, defragging is not required or advised on SSDs anyway...
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CCleaner is ok as a junk cleaner, and, I use it perhaps once a month to empty 1-2 GB of accumulated worthless junk..as intended. (you do not want to be wiping free space on an SSD needlessly, which are worthless /needless/wasted write cycles, etc)

Drives from Windows 7 onward have not really been required to be defragged any more perhaps quarterly for years now...; 1% fragmentation is not really 'fragmented'.(And you do not defrag SSDs....)

THere is certainly no need to empty trash daily, but, it is not a defrag anyway, and, defragging is not required or advised on SSDs anyway...
 
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1. Don't defrag SSD's. Thats what the OS TRIM function takes care of. Win 7 and later natively know how to treat an SSD. Just leave it.

2. Don't defrag HDD's "daily". Not necessary.
 
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