What Windows already does right
dfrgui knows the media. On SSDs it runs TRIM reissue (free-block hint to the controller) on the maintenance task cadence set by Storage Sense/Optimize Drives defaults — no fragmentation pass, no rewrite churn. You can verify: Optimize Drives reports “Solid state drive” and Scheduled optimization On for stock installs.
The myth menagerie to decline
- “Quarterly defrag keeps an SSD fast”: flash has no seek penalty; the writes you'd cause cost endurance and return nothing.
- “Move the pagefile off the SSD”: modern rebuttal — pagefile on NVMe is a feature, not wear hazard, at client workloads; the firmware will outlive your interest in the conversation.
- “Induce idle garbage collection manually”: the controller's firmware runs this on its own CG policy; user-triggered tricks degrade to noise.
Tuning's version of humility: the OS tracks hardware better than folklore. Where a per-user tool adds value is the layers above — startup, visual latency, cleanup — not the NAND.
ProofTune ProjectEngineering notes — every claim here names the bytes a real tool touches. Verify first, install second.