Newbie with SSD...

LiengLiengZA

LiengLiengZA

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You can literally just install Windows 7/8 on your drive and go on without any further worries. Especially with a new drive like the Vertex 4.
 
As long as you don't defrag it & have trim enabled you'll be fine.

There is quite a bit of bad advice in that article though...eg you definitely don't want to disable superfetch.
 
HavocXphere said:
As long as you don't defrag it & have trim enabled you'll be fine.

There is quite a bit of bad advice in that article though...eg you definitely don't want to disable superfetch.
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Really depends but i find without superfetch everything loads much faster. I would recommend it be turned off but it is easily tested, making a statement that it should be on for all systems is false. You are wrong saying you don't want to turn it off, test it before deciding. For me i tested it on and off and i find off is better.

However i am not saying my pc working better with it off means every single computer with an ssd would be faster though.
 
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Not cloning an existing install.Will be a fresh install and what I read about not to defrag and TRIM I understand but the rest of the stuff i've never heard of.
 
Windows 7/8 uses optimise and not defrag for SSD's, since it can detect that you're using one.
 
killadoob said:
Yup by default it is turned off however it is always worth ensuring that it is off even though it should be.
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Agreed, rather be safe than sorry, I personally disable the schedule and service and use a 3rd party defragment program such as Defraggler to defragment the hard drives when I need to.


kelevra said:
Boet's pc is next to mine busy moving everything I need.
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Yeah but the link above shows you how to redirect the folders so it will always go to the hard drive, if you don't do that new stuff will go to the SSD.

So say now you put a file on your desktop, by default it will be put on the SSD, but the link above shows you how to make it so that it will be put on a hard drive instead.
 
killadoob said:
Really depends but i find without superfetch everything loads much faster. I would recommend it be turned off but it is easily tested, making a statement that it should be on for all systems is false. You are wrong saying you don't want to turn it off, test it before deciding. For me i tested it on and off and i find off is better.

However i am not saying my pc working better with it off means every single computer with an ssd would be faster though.
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Well its a moot point now. I see my info was wrong. MS officially recommends Superfetch and prefetch be turned off to save write cycles.
 
If you install on an unformatted drive windows will reserve a hidden partition of 200MB. If you want to reclaim this space you have to partition it as a separate drive before installing windows.

Step 3. Disable System Restore
Don't see why you would necessarily want to do this. If it's useful to you then just set it at a reasonable value. 500MB or so would be more than enough do undo most program installations and won't degrade performance so much.

Step 7. Disable Hibernation
If you make use of it then don't. A lot of programs take a lot longer starting up than the time it takes to read files from a disk. If you don't use it THEN make sure it's turned off so it doesn't reserve space.
 
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