Disabling Unnecessary features for a longer SSD life?

Velineon · 28 Feb 2009 at 18:11

Ok since we are all banging on about SSD's, and sorry if there is a thread already about this but i thought id start it to get ideas from people who already have SSD's on what features should we be disabling through the operating system, to give the SSD's a longer life. I have 2 of those sammys ready to be installed but would like to know before setting them up on what is not needed.

Thanks again.

Velineon · 28 Feb 2009 at 18:42

Thanks for that

I will give that a go. Is there a way to get IE to use ram instead of HDD? Im not a Firefox fan

Velineon · 28 Feb 2009 at 19:08

Noticed it says it disables the paging file. How much ram is acceptable enough to have in order to disable a paging file? I have 6GB at the mo. Will be getting a further 6GB of the same memory in a few weeks.

Also i might be talking nonsence but dose the registry use up a lot of the SSD? I mean everytime we use windows it creates registry entries. Is there a way to have the registry write to a HDD instead of the SSD?

Velineon · 28 Feb 2009 at 19:53

Thanks for the advice LeJimster.

Velineon · 1 Mar 2009 at 11:37

Firegod said:
You shouldn't really disable your pagefile completley as Windows still needs it. Just set it to a small, fixed size. It's not about having 6Gb or 8Gb of memory, it's just about the OS needing to have it there. If you definately don't want it because you are using SSD's then perhaps pay £30 for a cheap regular hard disk as suggested, and stick just the pagefile on that.

Yeah i will be using one of my WD Raptors for the paging file