“Defragging and File Compression Since the Surface Pro 3 is essentially like any other pc, can you perform Defraggs and File Compressions? Thanks, Chuck.”
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You don't defrag flash storage to improve performance like you would on a regular hard drive. Defragging regular spinning drives is performed to move data on the drive's platters closer together in order to minimize the amount the heads have to move to get to associated data. Solid state storage does not access data this way so there is really no benefit to having data on flash storage physically closer together. Also, defragging solid state storage would decrease its the lifespan which is based on the number of writes. Windows 8 on the Surface performs what it calls "Optimize" on your storage which is really running a TRIM command that notifies the drive what data has been deleted and can be overwritten. This decreases the number of erases the storage has to perform which improves write speed and prolongs the drive's lifespan (probably). You can perform file compressions on the Surface Pro 3.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You can do file compression, but you don't want to defrag. The Surface Pro 3 has a solid state drive or SSD. SSDs are only good for a certain number of read/write cycles. Defragging will cause a large number of read/write cycles at once, which is really just reducing the lifespan of the drive. For the Pro 3 though, anything you can do with a PC, you can do on the Pro 3.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You should, I have never done it, but if you can do it on Windows 8.1 Pro, you should be able to do it on the SP3. Hope this helps, and feel free to ask further if this does not answer your question, or you have another question.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it works actually pretty fast. Make sure is plugged up onto wall if you are going to be using it heavily to process lots of operations.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. It is a full spec PC Has a flash drive - file management is better - you may discover less need to defrag / organize. File compression is provided with encryption, much like MACBook.
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