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SSD Tweak Tools

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Dr J

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Hi & obviously SSD's eliminate many of the problems associated with mechanical drives and, I'm sure, introduce some of their own. I'm assuming that disk defragmentation isn't as effective on an SSD, as on a mechanical drive?

I guess my questions are: how best can we tweak our new SSD's and are there any ideal software tools for doing so; is defrag still important?

thanks,

John
 
Defrag is not necessary nor recommended for an SSD.

If your SSD came with performance utilities or 'toolboxes' (like my Samsung 840Pro did) use those to optimize your SSD's performance.
 
The best tweak is a freshly installed OS. Win7 and Win8 then are already optimized for SSD, everything else is mostly snake oil. There are some pretty stupid "tweaks" out there, which do more harm than anything.

So if you use Win7 or Win8:
Install OS on SSD
done
 
There are tools for certain SSDs. But only manufacture-specific ones. No general tool for all SSDs. For example Samsung has a pretty good tool, the Samsung Magician v4.0.
 
aviator78 said:
There are tools for certain SSDs. But only manufacture-specific ones. No general tool for all SSDs. For example Samsung has a pretty good tool, the Samsung Magician v4.0.
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... which also does some pretty pointless things. It's not a deal breaker, but it improves basically nothing unless something was broken in the first place.
 
Basically the only things you really need to do are disable hibernation and depending on amount of RAM lower pagefile size to 1GB or less. Both will save you lots of space on your SSD.
 
Thanks! And, how do I lower pagefile size?

Also, I assume hibernate and sleep are not the same thing? For some reason, even if I force a "sleep" mode, the monitor will remain off, but the compter comes back on???
 
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GlacierFreeze said:
Basically the only things you really need to do are disable hibernation and depending on amount of RAM lower pagefile size to 1GB or less. Both will save you lots of space on your SSD.
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True, but only for space. Both don't harm your SSD in any meaningful way. If you need every bit of spacethis is a good place to start. But if you have enough space left you don't need to bother.
 
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