Am I being stupid?

Kavalree · 11 Mar 2011 at 13:48

OK, so my SSD is running sweetly, but there seems to be about 100meg or so added everytime I look, what is this?

I am sure I turned indexing of, and how do I use TRIM, I don't even know where it is :/.

EGuitarStar · 11 Mar 2011 at 13:52

Could be temporary files, downloads, page file.

How to enable trim? Google is your friend, many results! I do not have a SSD to know off the top of my head.

paradisiac · 11 Mar 2011 at 14:09

do you have system restore/recovery turned on or hibernation? all these little things will eat away at your space.

joxang · 11 Mar 2011 at 14:34

TRIM is automatic under Windows 7 as long as your SSD supports it. Disable the things mentioned above (reduce frequency of recovery images and delete old ones), change page file to reside on a different (spinny) disc.

100mb each time you look? You'll have to give more information than that. Is the space usage increasing by 100mb each hour? Every week?

Kavalree · 11 Mar 2011 at 14:58

joxang said:
TRIM is automatic under Windows 7 as long as your SSD supports it. Disable the things mentioned above (reduce frequency of recovery images and delete old ones), change page file to reside on a different (spinny) disc.

100mb each time you look? You'll have to give more information than that. Is the space usage increasing by 100mb each hour? Every week?

How do I do all of those? And 100Mb a day roughly...

paradisiac · 11 Mar 2011 at 15:05

google is your friend :
windows restore
hibernate
pagefile

and so on

joxang · 11 Mar 2011 at 15:15

paradisiac said:
google is your friend :
windows restore
hibernate
pagefile

and so on

You mean:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+system+restore
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+hibernate
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+pagefile

paradisiac · 11 Mar 2011 at 15:17

ooops, my bad

Chiribo · 11 Mar 2011 at 15:53

Also why move the Pagefile off the SSD? If you have plenty of RAM, sure reduce the pagefile. Bit stupid taking it off a device that actually handles pagefiles the best.

Also in terms of optimisation and whatnot: http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/

jimmy321 · 11 Mar 2011 at 17:10

A above.. Don't move or change the page file, it's not going to wear out your drive.

terminator2k2 · 11 Mar 2011 at 18:49

thanks for the info......i just got back a hell of a lot of space on my 40 gig intel ssd.....ive disabled hibernation, reduced the pagefile to 4 gig and turned off windows restore........

joxang · 11 Mar 2011 at 20:39

Re: pagefile. There's not really a right answer for this, apart from 'it probably doesn't matter'.

It depends on who you ask. Microsoft recommend leaving the pagefile on the SSD (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx), OCZ and Corsair recommend you move it to a storage drive (http://blog.corsair.com/?p=3989).

Either way, the performance difference will be minimal, and it while *does* have an effect on SSD, this will be such a long term thing that it's not going to matter for anyone. Modern SSD's have very high resistance to performance degradation.