Defrag system hdd only if is mechanical disk

Question

we needed some help. in practice we were looking for a method to start the defremmentation (defrag) of the primary disk (on windows "C:") only if it is a HDD and not an SSD we read about the command in powershell but can't compile (mediaType)

Answer 1

This script should work for you:

#Get friendly name of the C drive
$name = (get-partition -DriveLetter C | get-disk).FriendlyName

#Use friendly name to determine drive type
$mediatype = (Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName $name).MediaType

#Defragment drive if drive type is HDD

if ($mediatype -eq "HDD")
    {
        Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter C
    }