Just stuck in a new SSD

Greenlizard0 · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:20

It's a new Intel X25 M.

Right I have Vista 64 installing as I speak, and just wanna check that I'm about to do the right things :

*Turn off Superfetch (no need?)
*Never defrag

There were a few other things, what were they again please?

UKDTweak · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:23

If you are worried about the life of the drive, you can move the page file and temp files for your browser etc, to a secondary HDD. However, I think that kind of defeats the hole purpose...

AbsenceJam · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:35

Leave superfetch on, RAM is still faster than an SSD. Just turn off the defrag service, nothing else.

Greenlizard0 · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:02

Should I be turning off system restore and hibernation?

Frame352 · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:03

Heh, just asked for something like this in the SSD sticky - a few do's and don'ts regarding SSD usage would be very handy.

sturmtruppe · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:39

Never defrag is the main one. I dont even use superfetch on my main system with a HDD so its up to you.

AbsenceJam · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:46

Greenlizard0 said:
Should I be turning off system restore and hibernation?

Up to you. As I said, you only need to turn off defrag.

Nate Silvers · 18 Sep 2009 at 15:24

Disable pagefile
Disable superfetch
Disable disk indexing
Disable system restore
Disable disk shadow service
Disable scheduled defrag
Enabling write caching with advanced performace

VortexA1 · 18 Sep 2009 at 19:46

Nate Silvers said:
Disable pagefile
Disable superfetch
Disable disk indexing
Disable system restore
Disable disk shadow service
Disable scheduled defrag
Enabling write caching with advanced performace

I personally wouldnt disable system restore.just limit it's size. Also I've read that disabling pagefile isn't recommended. If you're worried about pagefile bung it on normal hdd.