Windows SSD : Superfetch, prefetch and drive indexing

moogle · 12 Feb 2012 at 16:21

Subliminal Aura said:
+1

If you're going to faff around with moving windows temp and user temp then what's the point of having an SSD

Because it'll still load windows and programs fast?

I didn't know people bought it for storing all their files and to write temp files so quickly

Me I just want it to load Windows core files and my installed programs when I choose.

It was pretty simple and quick but I suppose maybe most users will find it a confusing thing to do.

mrk said:
I don't think that matters that much. Since I installed and cloned over my HDD to SSD (Force 3 120GB) back in November the OS has written 922GB of data and read 2.44TB off it. SSDLife still estimates the life expectancy based on this to be 8yrs and 11months.

Reading off it doesn't really affect it, it's just the writes. As for SSDLife I don't really know how accurate that is, has it ever really predicted the end of an SSD drive yet?
Either way I'm just preventing unimportant writes.

Azuse05 · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:06

If writes are unimportant why spend money on a ssd... Old Intel drives are rated at 40GB per day, every day for 10 years... Why buy an os that sets everything up for you only to make assumptions and ultimately waste the performance gain of new hardware?

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It enables individuals to alter things negatively without really knowing what they're doing, although in fairness they won't know unless someone else tells them.

moogle · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:11

Azuse05 said:
If writes are unimportant why spend money on a ssd...

Really?

Write speed is what you and other SSD owners buy it for? I did not know that. :rolleyes:

mrk · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:15

moogle said:
Because it'll still load windows and programs fast?

I didn't know people bought it for storing all their files and to write temp files so quickly

Me I just want it to load Windows core files and my installed programs when I choose.

It was pretty simple and quick but I suppose maybe most users will find it a confusing thing to do.

Reading off it doesn't really affect it, it's just the writes. As for SSDLife I don't really know how accurate that is, has it ever really predicted the end of an SSD drive yet?
Either way I'm just preventing unimportant writes.

SSDLife doesn't do any predicting, it uses the information the SSD already stores inside it and relays that info.

http://ssd-life.com/eng/how.html

moogle · 12 Feb 2012 at 17:36

mrk said:
SSDLife doesn't do any predicting, it uses the information the SSD already stores inside it and relays that info.

http://ssd-life.com/eng/how.html

Thanks for the link just read it. So it's accurate on the health of the drive but it estimates the lifetime based on what the manufacturers say. Some manufacturers don't even state the lifetime of the flash on their drives.

I've been relying on the SSD endurance test thread on another forum where they test the different drives till they stop.