SSD Question

[mitsosvazelos84]

Hello , 

So I desided to take it to the next level and buy an sdd . Spent days preparing for cloning , read some guides explaining what needs to be tweaked for having an ssd .

some of theese tweaks are disabling defrag , veryfying trim , enabling achi mode ..... the question is wether to do these tweaks before cloning to ssd or after that . If I do this while still on the hard drive ( supposing its disk C: ) , will replacing its place with the ssd ( so that the ssd gets to be C: , the hard drive gets to be D: and so on ) make the settings that I tweaked apply to the ssd AND the renamed hdd to ? I am telling this because some settings like defrag apply for certain locations . For example , if I disable defrag on drive C: while still on the hdd , then make the ssd the C: drive will this apply to that ssd or will it apply for the drive wich has been renamed ?

Sorry if this is too confusing

 

thank you in advance

 

mitsosvazelos84

[ShadowCaptain]

SNIP

 

just do it later, will be fine, you dont need to overthink it

 

some SSDs even come with utilities to help you do all that, 

[10lawsonl]

I think defragging applies to the physical hard drive and not the storage location.

[Guest]

I think defragging applies to the physical hard drive and not the storage location.

I think defragging applies to the physical hard drive and not the storage location.

Yes, as long as you have the HDD defragging, and the SSD not defragging, both the drives will operate at their max.

(Question, which SSD did you buy?)

[mitsosvazelos84]

Yeah no need to overthink . But for the shake of knowledge , if I have defrag on for drive C ,then whatever the drive ( if they get swaped like mine will ) ,if itis named as C it will have defrag enabled , right ?

[TDP_Equinox]

Don't defrag an SSD. It doesn't help, and it uses write cycles. 

[mitsosvazelos84]

Don't defrag an SSD. It doesn't help, and it uses write cycles

This is not what I asked . I know that I am not suposed to do it . To put it simple; You have an hdd named C: . You enable defrag for drive C: .Then you get an ssd and make it C: drive . Will it have defrag enabled ( because its under the name C: ) ?

[mitsosvazelos84]

Yes, as long as you have the HDD defragging, and the SSD not defragging, both the drives will operate at their max.

(Question, which SSD did you buy?)

I bought the samsung 850 EVO , 250GB version . Haven't installed it yet , I'm resising my partitions and moving games, etc. . It's going to be epic though

[wako7654]

Yeah no need to overthink . But for the shake of knowledge , if I have defrag on for drive C ,then whatever the drive ( if they get swaped like mine will ) ,if itis named as C it will have defrag enabled , right ?

 

Defrag settings are tied to the device not the directory assignments. So answer is no whatever defrag settings you have on your drive that is currently set as C:, it will not carry over as it will be a different device. Another point to make is that when windows detects it's an SSD, it will automatically disable the defrag so it does not matter.

[TDP_Equinox]

This is not what I asked . I know that I am not suposed to do it . To put it simple; You have an hdd named C: . You enable defrag for drive C: .Then you get an ssd and make it C: drive . Will it have defrag enabled ( because its under the name C: ) ?

There are many safe points to prevent this. 

First, the defrag queue is tied to the device not the letter.

Second, windows will detect it's an SSD.

Third, even if both of those fail, defragging an SSD won't immediately affect the drive at all, and you can just turn it off manually. It's not going to kill it to defrag it for 5 minutes once

[mitsosvazelos84]

I see . Thank you guys for the help , going to install the ssd now

 

mitsosvazelos84