SSD Optimization (Windows 7)

[lol1419]

Hey guys,

 

I recently installed a new SSD in my system (the only drive), a Crucial MX100 128GB.

 

I was going though forums and such for optimizations that should be done to improve the life span of SSD's when I hit a few controversies. I know I should disable disk defragmentation, indexing, enable trim, and disable hibernation, but how about other things such as:

 

 

-pagefile (by how much, turn completely off or what?) (I have 8GB of RAM BTW)

-Disable ClearPagefielAtShutdown and LargeSystemCache

-Disbale Prefetch and Superfetch

-Disable Windows Search and Superfetch

-Anything else I need to know

 

 

Here is the link I used to receive this information:

 

www.computing.net/howtos/show/solid-state-drive-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7/522.html

 

I was a bit confused because I hear some options windows takes care of and others were problems faced with older SSD's. However, it would be great if the LTT community could help me out.

 

Thanks!

[Humbug]

don't do anything except running windows experience index and checking that defrag is disabled. After running wei window automatically Turns off unnecessary services depending on the speed of your drive. Windows 7 is well optimized for SSDs and treats them differently than HDDs, and most of Those guides are just written to generate hits. Your SSD is also not going to die fast even if You write to it regularly, there's a lot of scare mongering. Just enjoy the speed..