Should you defragment the SSD on a Y-70?

I have read on other forums that usually you should not defrag an SSD as it is of little value and can decrease the lifespan to some extent. I was reading up on the SSD topic because I am considering swapping my Desktop C: drive which is a 1 TB HDD and going to an SSD.
My new laptop is the Lenovo Y-70 and has a 512GB SSD as it's primary drive so I took a look at my Administrative Tools section in the Control Panel and see that it is set to "optimize" my SSD drive weekly. I assume that this is just a new term for deframent.
Is this the correct setting?

Chrisinkingwood wrote:
I have read on other forums that usually you should not defrag an SSD as it is of little value and can decrease the lifespan to some extent. I was reading up on the SSD topic because I am considering swapping my Desktop C: drive which is a 1 TB HDD and going to an SSD.
My new laptop is the Lenovo Y-70 and has a 512GB SSD as it's primary drive so I took a look at my Administrative Tools section in the Control Panel and see that it is set to "optimize" my SSD drive weekly. I assume that this is just a new term for deframent.
Is this the correct setting?
Try reading Les Tokar's how to guide blog. It should answer all questions regarding SSD and how to optimize it. My ssd recently decided to quit abruptly just one month from the estimated life expentancy. So I'm no longer interested in ssd after experiencing two units rendered inoperational.

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