Disabling Unnecessary features for a longer SSD life?

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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.
 
For the tweaks this little exe does them all for you - http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49779

I've also set firefox to use RAM for cache rather than the SSD

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Description: If you use Firefox, there's a way 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.
Instructions: 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, 131072 for 128MB, etc. -> restart Firefox
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And partition alignment if using XP, vista/7 is done automatically if formatted during OS install

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=325216#post325216
 
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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 :P
 
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?
 
Registry needs to be on the system drive, and you'd lose some of the speed benefits if it weren't. Wouldn't worry about it too much, its certainly not the most write intensive part of the OS.

6Gb should be plenty to disable your swap file. If you really don't want to risk it you could just move the swap/page file to your spindle HDD. I plan on disabling mine and I have 4Gb.. I might upgrade to 8Gb if necessary though, as ram is cheap.
 
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. :)
 
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. :)
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Yeah i will be using one of my WD Raptors for the paging file :)
 
Tried the tweaker - it has sped up boot and shut down, but only if I don't select 'clear page file on shut down' - that makes shutdown take about two minutes.
 
There's nothing really to be gained by clearing page file on shut down. I'm not sure why the tweak is there. It's also not entirely wise to disable the page file unless you have memory in abundance. Many applications are greedy with memory, and book too much from Windows. A page file allows this to be paged out of real memory leaving real memory to be used rather than reserved and unused.

The most important tweak is alignment. That has to be done when you format the drive. Vista gets it right, XP gets it wrong.
 
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