1st time ssd user

Thekwango · 28 Jun 2013 at 23:42

I'm sure these questions are answered somewhere in here already, so apologies in advance!

Just bought and fitted one of these
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-161-SA

to an new htpc.

been reading that it's in the best interest of the drives health to turn off defrag, prefetch & superfetch-but I'll be buggered if I know how to(not even sure what prefetch & superfetch are!)

also read trim should be enabled, again how do I do that??

and finally whats a good piece of benching software to check i'm getting the correct speeds from the drive?

sorry for the probably noobish questions. I tried google but ended up more baffled than when I started!

the1gooner · 29 Jun 2013 at 00:52

If you are running Windows 8 you dont really have to worry about all that as it sets up to run the best with an ssd. If you go to disk tools you will see something called 'optimise' instead of defrag.

Just reduce your pagefile size.

Atto disk bench and hd tach are good benchmarks to use.

Dervious · 29 Jun 2013 at 09:55

Have you installed and run "Samsung Magician" ?

There should have been a copy that came with the SSD.

Thekwango · 1 Jul 2013 at 10:01

the1gooner said:
If you are running Windows 8 you dont really have to worry about all that as it sets up to run the best with an ssd. If you go to disk tools you will see something called 'optimise' instead of defrag.

Just reduce your pagefile size.

Atto disk bench and hd tach are good benchmarks to use.

Dervious said:
Have you installed and run "Samsung Magician" ?

There should have been a copy that came with the SSD.

sorry for the delayed reply folks. thanks for the advice.

running win7 hp here gooner, i guess the options are nuch the same?

and cheers for that dervious, never even thought to look and see what was on the disk that came with the drive!