New SSD things to do?

[Fill6251]

Hey Everyone,

 

I have installed my first SSD. A 256GB evo 850 msata card and wow it is fast. I do have a 1TB HDD as well. 
I am wanting to optimize and make sure that I am not doing things that would hurt it. I found this guide which some of them sound good but I do not fully understand them all. 1-5 seem no brainer but 6-12 are above my head as in what I am actually doing to my computer so I want to make sure it is good advice before proceeding.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/

 

Any help would be much appreciated. 

[Enderman]

Most of those things are bad. Ignore the clickbait articles and leave your SSD alone.

Windows takes care of everything for you.

 

What you should NOT do is clone/migrate to an SSD. As long as you clean installed then you're fine.

[Fill6251]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Most of those things are bad. Ignore the clickbait articles and leave your SSD alone.

Windows takes care of everything for you.

 

What you should NOT do is clone/migrate to an SSD. As long as you clean installed then you're fine.

I have already migrated and I do not see anything wrong with it. Why should I do a clean install instead? 

 

As for windows takes care of everything... I have a hard time believing that.

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, Fill6251 said:

I have already migrated and I do not see anything wrong with it. Why should I do a clean install instead? 

 

As for windows takes care of everything... I have a hard time believing that.

Basically it causes a ton of issues which you usually run into either soon after cloning or months later when trying to install a windows update.

Cloning is a lazy way of avoiding a clean install but when you start having issues you will need to clean install anyway to fix them, saving you no time in the long run and giving you more headaches.

You can google "issues after cloning" to see the millions of things that will go wrong sometime in the next few months or years, since it seems like you were lucky enough to have your PC still boot properly after cloning.

Even companies like WD highly recommend against cloning because it can make the OS recognize the SSD as a HDD.

 

Trust me, even if you have no issues now, you will in the future. I've seen thousands of people come to this forum asking for help because something isn't working and it is because they cloned/migrated their drive.

 

If you clean install windows it will detect it properly as an SSD and you do not need to do any of that stuff in the clickbait article because it is either done for you already (trim, disable defrag, etc), or it should not be done (indexing, superfetch etc).

[Fill6251]

so how would I know if windows is seeing my ssd as a hdd?

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, Fill6251 said:

so how would I know if windows is seeing my ssd as a hdd?

It would give you the option to defragment it.

[dizmo]

You don't have to do any of those things. I've never done any of them on any of the SSDs I've owned, and I've never run into any problems. The one thing I would do is update the firmware before you install anything onto it. Some SSDs can't update once there's a copy of Windows installed on it.

 

I think you're far too worried about absolutely nothing. It takes an awful lot to "hurt" an SSD.

 

36 minutes ago, Enderman said:

It would give you the option to defragment it.

You get the option to defragment SSDs as well.

[Fill6251]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I think I will just leave things alone but if I start to run into problems then I will do a clean install. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

A lot of those things you had to do in when SSDs were finally becoming mainstream and the OS wouldn't know what to do with it. Windows 8 and beyond however do know when an SSD is installed and it will configure itself appropriately.

 

Also that first point. If you weren't enabling AHCI in 2012, you must be using an old OS.

 

And removing the page file is a bad idea.