SSD = higher memory usage?

[Yosiah]

I reinstalled windows 7 on a new SSD - now the only drive in my case, but I've noticed that windows 7 now uses 25% of my 4GB ram, whereas before it used to use 18%.

Do SSDs increase the ram usage? I was told to disable prefetching and superfetching, and they say they are disabled in the registry (0, instead of 3 modifiers).

Also, Ctrl Shift Escape shows a lot of cached memory... isn't that supposed to be zero now?

Sorry I'm a noob with this

 

[Yosiah]

Also, my degrag window has the SSD in the List (it's my C drive; my only drive) and this weird Volume string...

Is it not properly detecting it as an SSD? I was told windows should remove it from here after Windows Experience Index is done etc.

 

[Yosiah]

The only drive I have in the PC at the moment is a 120 GB Force 3 SSD, and I'm still waiting for my Samsung F3 to be delivered from another store.

I thought if windows properly detected your SSD, it wasn't supposed to show in the Defragment List, and Prefecth and Superfetch are supposed to be automatically disabled by windows after you run the Windows Experience Index, but they haven't been.