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I want to setup scheduled drives optimization on Windows Server 2019 (defrag HDDs and TRIM SSDs).

The Optimize Drives main window lists my drives properly. But when I want to select the drives that I want to optimize on a scheduled basis then this list is empty - see screenshots.

Why is the second list empty (for scheduled optimization) but drives are normally detected in the main Optimize Drives window? The popup says Only drives that can be scheduled for automatic optimization are shown. One of my disk is a M.2 SSD connected directly to the server motherboard, the other ones are a mix of HDDs and SSDs within an external disk shelf and connected to the server using a LSI HBA card.

Optimize Drives

Optimize Drives

PS 1: All disks are NTFS

PS 2: When I click "Turn on" then the second window appears allowing me to enable and opening the third window with the empty list of drives.

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  • I want to setup scheduled drives optimization Why?
    – Gantendo
    Commented Feb 28 at 14:48
  • @Gantendo Because yesterday I accidentally run this tool and saw one of my 16TB disk was like 30% fragmented and the defrag process took more than 48 hours (other HDD also needed defrag). I want to automatically defrag my drives instead of manually checking if they need optimization.
    – Darxis
    Commented Feb 28 at 14:54
  • What file systems on those drives?
    – Joep van Steen
    Commented Feb 28 at 15:01
  • @JoepvanSteen All NTFS
    – Darxis
    Commented Feb 28 at 15:02
  • What happens when you click "Turn On"? Edit your question instead of submitting a temporary comment.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Feb 28 at 17:45

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