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firefox and ssd?

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iamloco724

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I just built my first pc and have intel 510 120gb as my boot drive besides the the stuff that toolbox and windows 7 takes care of and the obivous stuff such as moving my documents to a reg drive and not downloading on the ssd

Is there anything i should change when i install firefox or any other browser

Or anything else you would suggest doing to keep my ssd running smoothly
 
Consider putting your Temporary Internet Files on your HDD regardless of what browser you use.
 
I have a 120GB SSD as my current C drive. I treat it just as I would a normal HDD. (I never defragged normal HDDs either. 😛 )

Why is everyone babying their SSD?
 
Zap said:
Why is everyone babying their SSD?
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That's something I wonder as well... I have had my Intel X25-M G2 80GB for more than two years now and I haven't done anything differently compared to a regular drive. For most workloads, an SSD will probably last longer than a mechanical drive.
 
There's just alot of old, fearful information out there that people pay attention to. I still see lots of sites advising to turn off various NTFS file system features that I remember over a decade ago. There's also that never dying thread in OCZ about Tony-TRIM that is clearly labelled to be used on older OCZ Vertex I era drives, but people seem to ignore it along with other good advice like Zap's sticky SSD thread.

Oh well...
 
I toss my mozilla downloads folders onto a HDD but that's it. Don't care enough about internet cache activity to warrant going out of the way to write it onto a HDD.
 
iamloco724 said:
I just built my first pc and have intel 510 120gb as my boot drive besides the the stuff that toolbox and windows 7 takes care of and the obivous stuff such as moving my documents to a reg drive and not downloading on the ssd

Is there anything i should change when i install firefox or any other browser

Or anything else you would suggest doing to keep my ssd running smoothly
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My Fox launches in 0 seconds, especially when turning off stupid windows animation.

I store my Firefox cache in another hard drive,,,,, I store my Chrome and IE cache on E drive. so the working the C,, doesn't get any bothering and surfing is instant.
SSD you wont tell a different ... gl 🙄 been doing this for years,, even on my older machines in the past.
 
Cache to RAM or SSD. Random reads/writes to temp internet files is a huge bottleneck in web browsing with the 200+ files per page a typical bloated website uses. Just listen to a standard HDD thrash and light go solid when you open several pages and go forward/back rapidly, especially when searching and opening new sites and watch how the browser hitches and stutters and freezes intermittently due to IO. With a standard HDD I swear it seems slower to snoop the tens of thousands of 100 byte random files in the cache looking to see if something is cached than just downloading again.

I don't get why people buy SSDs to not use them. Ditch the read/write heads and don't look back.

I'm spoiled now and won't be satisfied until we crush the memory gap once and for all with 1:1 non volatile ram. I hope to see in my lifetime Sandra and Atto merged to one universal benchmark that reports one thing. 8 GB? 1000 GB? 1 file? 2 million files? All moved or copied in the blink of an eye at 30+ GB/sec and "loading" something is merely executing a JMP instruction... Oh yes please. Time to bring back the "core memory" paradigm and eliminate disks and tape.
 
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I agree, i have an intel SSD drive just for cache (Photoshop/Bridge, IE/firefox, winrar etc) and downloads. It's the drive I keep on upgrading. My OS is till on the old SSD now drive which is slow in today's standard. Since I don't reset my main computer very often, I don't see the real need to update the main OS drive.
 
corkyg said:
Consider putting your Temporary Internet Files on your HDD regardless of what browser you use.
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why? they are irrelevant amount of write and pages will load much faster if they are on the SSD.
You should keep them on the SSD for max speed.
 
i use my memory for my cache, i come across this trick from some website i can't recall at the moment. works great for me, i have it set to use 1gb of memory for the cache

[FONT=&quot]Firefox - Use memory cache
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]reduce disk writes[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Firefox has the ability to write cached files to RAM instead of the hard disk. This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]To change the cache location to RAM:
Open Firefox -> Type about:config into the address bar -> Enter -> double-click browser.cache.disk.enable to set the value to False -> Right-Click anywhere -> New -> Integer -> Preference Name "disk.cache.memory.capacity" -> value memory size in KB. Enter 32768 for 32MB, 65536 for 64MB, etc. -> restart Firefox[/FONT]
 
hclarkjr said:
have it set to use 1gb of memory for the cache
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That is ALOT of pron! 🙂 I wonder if on exit if it writes the cache to disk so that it can reload it back onto RAM when you start Firefox. Otherwise, you're Internet is gonna have to be fast to fill 1GB of your average Firefox web surfing session before you exit.
 
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