connorss Posted March 30, 2011 Report Posted March 30, 2011 So Im the proud soon-to-be owner of a 64gb SSD. I plan to put windows and other programs i use alot on this to increase speeds.But I want to know what programs I should use to keep my ssd running fast and what not to do to degrade it. Thank you
matty0 Posted March 30, 2011 Report Posted March 30, 2011 So Im the proud soon-to-be owner of a 64gb SSD. I plan to put windows and other programs i use alot on this to increase speeds.But I want to know what programs I should use to keep my ssd running fast and what not to do to degrade it. Thank you before installing anything onto it, make sure it is running the latest firmware possible. other than that, a good quality sata connection to the motherboard and bi-anual de-fragging should be fine. im sure there's more you can do... make sure you have TRIM running is important i think... no idea what it is, but apparently its handy
connorss Posted March 30, 2011 Author Report Posted March 30, 2011 before installing anything onto it, make sure it is running the latest firmware possible. other than that, a good quality sata connection to the motherboard and bi-anual de-fragging should be fine. im sure there's more you can do... make sure you have TRIM running is important i think... no idea what it is, but apparently its handyOk,But dosnt defragging use up the read/write(I froget whitch one's) cycles you have and shorten the life?
matty0 Posted March 30, 2011 Report Posted March 30, 2011 Ok,But dosnt defragging use up the read/write(I froget whitch one's) cycles you have and shorten the life?arguable. itl (as its name suggests) de-fragment the drive. the more its used the more files will become indiscriminately linked. with indexing and loads of other crap, your hard drive has A LOT of work to cope with. it will use some of the total read/writes the drive can handle, but only doing it twice a year... no issues as far as i see it. a second opinion might not hurt. ask someone with there own ssd... oh quiiiiiiiiiiiiiin haha
Quinn Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 Matty is right, do a firmware update when you get it. Second of all, I'm assuming that you will be running windows 7, check to make sure that TRIM is enabled by opening Command Prompt and pasting in the following: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify It will say one of two things: DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled) DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled) Other than that, don't let it get too full, because that also slows it down. DO NOT TRY AND DEFRAG! SSDs are not meant to be defragmented, that is (sort of) what TRIM is for. If the drive you have doesn't support TRIM (some older drives don't), then a simple fix is to run CCleaner, and tick the "Wipe Free Space" box.
Randomrocket Posted March 31, 2011 Report Posted March 31, 2011 this is a lot of talk about ssd's haha
miinaturvat Posted April 1, 2011 Report Posted April 1, 2011 (edited) Yeah, like Quinn says, don't bother defragmenting it. It's solid state memory, meaning it's random access, not sequencial. So no matter how fragmented files get, the read times will be the exact same Edited April 1, 2011 by miinaturvat
halo3 Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 Yeah, like Quinn says, don't bother defragmenting it. It's solid state memory, meaning it's random access, not sequencial. So no matter how fragmented files get, the read times will be the exact same No actually defragmenting causes more damage and shrinks the life of the SSD. But actualy windows 7 has a lock out thing that prevents you defraging it. Btw you know SSDs can only be rewritten so many times.
Randomrocket Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 No actually defragmenting causes more damage and shrinks the life of the SSD. But actualy windows 7 has a lock out thing that prevents you defraging it. Btw you know SSDs can only be rewritten so many times.yeah. Like a 1,200,000 times.
halo3 Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 yeah. Like a 1,200,000 times.depending on the one you buy but it is more like 10,000 XD
Randomrocket Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 depending on the one you buy but it is more like 10,000 XDmaybe if you pay like 10 bucks for an old one
halo3 Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 maybe if you pay like 10 bucks for an old oneno
Randomrocket Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 noCheapest one on newegg still gets 1,000,000
Quinn Posted April 3, 2011 Report Posted April 3, 2011 Sorry halo3, but Randomrocket is right. Some of the older ones are crap, but the new ones (from reputable companies) are different.
Randomrocket Posted April 4, 2011 Report Posted April 4, 2011 Sorry halo3, but Randomrocket is right. Some of the older ones are crap, but the new ones (from reputable companies) are different.yay I was right on something I learned about less than a week ago thanks to Quinn and Matty! haha
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