Tips for installing new SSD?

[Byzantine Blue]

My last SSD failed a couple of weeks back after only two months of use. I am doing an RMA with that, but I went ahead and bought a new SSD as well, which I was planning on doing before my previous one failed. It's just that I bought it sooner than planned. My new one is an OCZ Vertex 3 120GB which I shall be using as my main boot drive.

Anyway, after I install an operating system on it (Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit) what should I do in order to get the best performance out of my SSD (e.g. enabling TRIM plus any others) and in order to stop any (e.g. disabling hibernate/sleep mode plus any others) and how do I go about doing that? If you could tell me any and all, that would be much appreciated.

 

[Philtor]

TRIM will be enabled automatically on Windows 7 with the OCZ Vertex 3. Once you install Windows run the Windows experience index assessment which will disable Disk Defrag and SuperFetch. You may also wish to disable Hibernation, Windows search indexing and Drive indexing. Here's how to perform these tweaks;

How to disable Hibernation
Open command prompt as an elevated user (run as admin).
Type the following: powercfg –h off

How to disable Windows search
Run services.msc then locate the Windows search service, select properties, change startup type to disabled and then simply stop the service.

How to disable Drive indexing
Right click on SSD drive icon and select properties, then under the General tab remove the check from ‘Index this drive for faster searching’.

How to check TRIM is enabled
Open command prompt as an elevated user (run as admin).
Type the following: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
If the result is '0' TRIM is enabled.

You might also want to reduce the amount of space allocated for System restore.

 

[jonneymendoza]

susbcribed and will come back to this trhead when i get mine tomorrow