I got an SSD, what are some good ways to optimize it?

[Satyrn]

SSD I got: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB

 

I've done a couple things already, like overprovisioning, enabling RAPID mode, and setting up TRIM, but what are some other things I can do?

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, Satyrn said:

SSD I got: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB

 

I've done a couple things already, like overprovisioning, enabling RAPID mode, and setting up TRIM, but what are some other things I can do?

I wouldn't worry too much about over provisioning, especially on a 256; its already so small its hard to really give up space. Plus, an 860 Evo will last a lot of write cycles, for a home machine it will last plenty long.

 

TRIM should be defaulted by your OS... Windows 10 knows what SSD's are by default and sets TRIM up for them automatically. Depending on how much RAM you have, I am not sure I would even bother with RAPID mode either. Dedicating system RAM to try and cache an SSD is not really all that important. Honestly, just plug it in, get your OS and most used programs/games on it, and enjoy :).

[Satyrn]

5 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I wouldn't worry too much about over provisioning, especially on a 256; its already so small its hard to really give up space. Plus, an 860 Evo will last a lot of write cycles, for a home machine it will last plenty long.

 

TRIM should be defaulted by your OS... Windows 10 knows what SSD's are by default and sets TRIM up for them automatically. Depending on how much RAM you have, I am not sure I would even bother with RAPID mode either. Dedicating system RAM to try and cache an SSD is not really all that important. Honestly, just plug it in, get your OS and most used programs/games on it, and enjoy :).

Thanks! In terms of overprovisioning, should I just set it to 10GB and leave it alone? I currently have it set to 23GB, as that's what Samsung Magician recommended.

[LIGISTX]

18 minutes ago, Satyrn said:

Thanks! In terms of overprovisioning, should I just set it to 10GB and leave it alone? I currently have it set to 23GB, as that's what Samsung Magician recommended.

23GB is 10% which is why it's saying that. Really all over provisioning does is forces you to not fill the drive up as it reserves some in an unpartitioned area in order to leave be able to do its background garbage collection and TRIM functions optimally even if the user fills the drive up 100%. Basically, its making it so you can "use 100% of the available space My Computer is showing you on the C drive" without it having an issue. The saying of "don't fill up your SSD to 100% comes from this, but if you over provision, you can go ahead and fill it up to 100% since its not really 100%... with that said, all SSD's have a bit of extra flash that is not shown to the user just for this reason. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

26 minutes ago, Satyrn said:

Thanks! In terms of overprovisioning, should I just set it to 10GB and leave it alone? I currently have it set to 23GB, as that's what Samsung Magician recommended.

Id just let the partition take the full space, no reason to shrink the partition, as trim does this already with free space.

 

38 minutes ago, Satyrn said:

enabling RAPID mode,

Turn this off, windows does this already, and the way samgsung does it can lead due data loss as its storing writes in ram, and saying there on disk.

[Satyrn]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id just let the partition take the full space, no reason to shrink the partition, as trim does this already with free space.

 

Turn this off, windows does this already, and the way samgsung does it can lead due data loss as its storing writes in ram, and saying there on disk.

Ok, thanks!

[SkilledRebuilds]

Rapid mode, ruined shadowplay recordongs for me.

Wasnt even the REC or Games drive...

Off vs On, dramatic recording outout differences.

Stuttering, but every few seconds, weird speedup and slowdowns.. ruined.

 

That RAM cache really can screw you, only after the fact can you say so. And most don't use it really so hard to find BAD examples of it in use.

 

But I wouldn't recommend RAPID, Momentum or ANY Sysram cache for SSDs, even DRAMLESS ones.

Overprovisioning should do all you need it to, there is no Magic Bullet Sauce for these.

Raid0 or NVME if you want speed.

[Satyrn]

6 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Rapid mode, ruined shadowplay recordongs for me.

Wasnt even the REC or Games drive...

Off vs On, dramatic recording outout differences.

Stuttering, but every few seconds, weird speedup and slowdowns.. ruined.

 

That RAM cache really can screw you, only after the fact can you say so. And most don't use it really so hard to find BAD examples of it in use.

 

But I wouldn't recommend RAPID, Momentum or ANY Sysram cache for SSDs, even DRAMLESS ones.

Overprovisioning should do all you need it to, there is no Magic Bullet Sauce for these.

Raid0 or NVME if you want speed.

I don't use Shadowplay, but I guess I'll disable RAPID. Thanks!

[Paolo Pandas]

Leave Rapid Mode OFF. When I turned mine on, it seems to generate a lot of CRC Error Count. The errors went away after turning Rapid Mode OFF.

 

If you want to extend the life of your SSD, you can re-direct all the Window's TEMP (under Environment Variables in System Properties) files and all the browser's cache to your HDD. For me, I am a bit more extreme. I re-direct them to a RAM-Disk (using Imdisk Toolkit). 

 

 

 

[Satyrn]

6 hours ago, Paolo Pandas said:

Leave Rapid Mode OFF. When I turned mine on, it seems to generate a lot of CRC Error Count. The errors went away after turning Rapid Mode OFF.

 

If you want to extend the life of your SSD, you can re-direct all the Window's TEMP (under Environment Variables in System Properties) files and all the browser's cache to your HDD. For me, I am a bit more extreme. I re-direct them to a RAM-Disk (using Imdisk Toolkit). 

 

 

 

Will moving my TEMP to my HDD hurt performance of my system though?

 

EDIT: Answered my own question. I don't notice ANY difference in boot times, or general performance. Thanks!