I am not a technical person so please excuse my lact of 'knowledge' but I have a question. My new PC has a ceramic hard drive (specs shown below) and my IT people have advised me against using CCleaner or the defraggler with this hard drive.
I think you mean "Solid State" drive. CCleaner is fine to run on the Solid State, don't defrag it though as solid state memory doesn't need to be defragged.
Also, SSD's get discussed here regularly, a quick search of other threads will pop up many topics that may help your learning curve - if you're interested of course.
"Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation"
After a few more searches I still see absolutely no proper information upon the nature of "OptiCache technology",
but I did stumble upon :-
In another development, Seagate said it will be converting its line of Barracuda XT 3.5-in. hard drives to a hybrid drive technology by adding NAND flash to the drives as a type of inexpensive cache. The most frequently used data is kept on the NAND flash board to increase performance.
Seagate already sells hybrid drives under its Momentus XT line, which has up to 500GB capacity. The Barracuda XT lineup includes models that have as much as 3TB of capacity. Seagate would not specify a date for the launch of the new Barracuda XT hybrid drives, saying only that its disclosure of the new line is to demonstrate it is committed to hybrid technology.
One would need to research the density and durability of the nand cache. This may be entirely different than what is used in the cheap consumer grade SSDs. This may be large geometry and SLC, thus it would have billions of write cycles. It has to!
One would need to research the density and durability of the nand cache. This may be entirely different than what is used in the cheap consumer grade SSDs. This may be large geometry and SLC, thus it would have billions of write cycles. It has to!
True, BUT
Although a 1 Terabyte "Server Grade" SSD may have a thousand times the endurance of a consumer grade SSD,
A 64 MB sized Flash Cell cache is going to suffer 16,000 times the average SSD degradation if it has to withstand multiple writes of Terabyte defragmentation.
It is just possible his I.T. people may know what they are talking about - yes I also believe in miracles
It may be reasonable to get advice from the manufacturer themselves.
If they say that their drive is able to withstand defragging,
it may also be worth considering their fallibility. Do a Google search for
bricked seagate drive
I had to assist my son who was one of the victims of their firmware error
Very many thanks to everyone who replied to my questions - your help is greatly appreciated!
Cannuck21
I am not a technical person so please excuse my lact of 'knowledge' but I have a question. My new PC has a ceramic hard drive (specs shown below) and my IT people have advised me against using CCleaner or the defraggler with this hard drive.