SSD owners

[killadoob]

Anyhow been checking and reading and i saw a couple things that have improved my SSD performance by miles.

Staggering actually wow.

1. change from ide to ahci in the bios
2. do not have a pagefile on your SSD

Amazing the difference.

 

[Conradl]

How does moving the page file to another drive improve performance?? I thought it would be better?? If I bought an SSD putting the page file on it would have been the first thing I did

 

[howardb]

Nice one killadoob - will give point 1 a try.

@ Conradl - I don't run a paging file at all with my SSD - I found that having 4GB ram installed on my daily-use 32-bit PC and switching off this option certainly made a difference in my case. Will be testing the 64-bit PC with 8GB ram over the weekend to see if there are major differences.

 

[Keeper]

How does moving the page file to another drive improve performance?? I thought it would be better?? If I bought an SSD putting the page file on it would have been the first thing I did

+1

 

[medicnick83]

Anyhow been checking and reading and i saw a couple things that have improved my SSD performance by miles.

Staggering actually wow.

1. change from ide to ahci in the bios
2. do not have a pagefile on your SSD

Amazing the difference.

Nice...

I'll remember this in the future.

 

[killadoob]

Yea also howard you do not actually need a paging file with 4gb memory that is also very true.

I am not sure why it would not be good to have the pagefile on the SSD, maybe it only applies if the SSD is the OS drive. It may be that the pagefile is writing to the SSD at the same time as the OS which may slow it down.

Will test it without the pagefile and with it on the ssd as i change both ahci and pagefile at the same time.

I also read you should turn off defrag and turn or super fetch on windows vista and 7 as the access times on an SSD do not require superfetch to be active.

 

[Keeper]

yeah maybe the advantage of your pagefile on a different drive makes a bigger difference than on a SDD drive which is also your OS drive...

 

[masticore]

Anyhow been checking and reading and i saw a couple things that have improved my SSD performance by miles.

Staggering actually wow.

1. change from ide to ahci in the bios
2. do not have a pagefile on your SSD

Amazing the difference.

As an aside, implementing 1 oftens leads to an inaccessible operating system because the drive access method has changed. Re-installing the OS will (obviously) fix the problem, but there's an article out there (iow use google) to update a SATA controller from IDE to AHCI without re-installing the OS.

 

[killadoob]

I changed over from ide to ahci without a problem.

I think it may be vista or xp that may have a problem but windows 7 booted fine after i changed it.

 

[MrWireless]

Naah... I have windows 7, and when changing to over i got me a nice BSOD. Tried a few times, as as it loads the login screen - BSOD. Changing back to normal fixed it right up!

Will look at that option of changing without re-installing!