SSD Queries

[blinghound]

Hey all, I'm going to be buying the 120gb vertex 2E, which will be used as a boot drive, along with apps and games.

Since I have never used an SSD before, I was wondering what I will have to do to maintain the speed and the longevity of the drive.

Do you guys move all appdata, temp folders, profiles, page file etc to a separate hard drive? or is this overkill?

Also, which drivers will I need for best performance?

Thanks a lot

 

[FabienO]

Treat it as a normal drive. If it feels like it's slowing TRIM it. They have pretty long life cycles as it is.

Typically, people have SSD as boot/games/apps. Other storage (HDD) as a downloads/files/storage. I would follow the same route. Download to HDD install to SSD.

Personally, i'll be installing the less necessary apps on my HDD. Only important apps make it to the SSD.. for me.

 

[blinghound]

Yeah, I was thinking about doing that, only the essential apps and more demanding games on the ssd. Do you keep all windows temp files etc on the SSD?

Can TRIM be initiated manually then? I just kinda assumed it was fully automated.

Cheers mate

 

[Zarf]

Don't bother shifting anything off, it's not worth it. The drive lifespan is measured in decades under normal conditions, and performance loss is pretty minor on the Sandforce drives.
TRIM is automatic under Windows 7, the original Vertex and other Indilinx drives had a manual trim utility that could be used under older versions of Windows, but afaik there is no manual trim for the Sandforce drives.

 

[Ivyforce]

I just made sure autodefrag was off, disabled superfetch and prefetch..thats it..moved no folders, in fact internet feels faster as temp files are loaded quicker.

 

[reygjabla]

This is the amount of temp files and IE files accumulated in a 3 hour PC usage.

Just imagine what it's gonna be like it this files is in your SSD? Remember, you also have the log files residing on your SSD.