SSD Optimizations

[Cs342]

Is it really necessary to move the page file, browser cache etc to a secondary HDD and disable search index, or are these just myths? Wouldn't drive manufacturers have warned us by now if we were meant to do that?

[Ilumic]

samsung has ;D they even made a tool called samsung ssd magician , download it and it helps maintain your ssd 

[CwGoh]

Disabling he page file and cache will lessen the write cycles to the SSD. They do help, but not significantly especially with the advansments with SSD wear-levelling.

[IdeaStormer]

Is it really necessary to move the page file, browser cache etc to a secondary HDD and disable search index, or are these just myths? Wouldn't drive manufacturers have warned us by now if we were meant to do that?

 

Heck I've use to disable that on my regular drives. Page file gets written to a lot by Windows OS, I used to place it on a secondary crappy drive when I didn't have enough RAM, now I use no paging file, browser cache is usually just a lot of BS files you may or may not need again (by the browser) you can reduce that in your browsers cache setting to even 0. Search Index, who really uses OS search to find files? Ever heard of properly saving your files in a sensible tree structure? That eliminates the need for any search index, OS or some 3rd party crap. Then you have those members that complain of HD noises, guess what if you have search index running it starts to scan the file system when idle (aka you're attempting to sleep) and hence the random noises.

 

Drive manufactures make money selling more drives, they could care less if you hit the write count to kill your SSD sooner than expected, but if you are a optimizer you can prolong your SSD's life by reducing the BS write counts by doing the above, then again it also works for a spinning drive.

[Cs342]

Disabling he page file and cache will lessen the write cycles to the SSD. They do help, but not significantly especially with the advansments with SSD wear-levelling.

 

 

Heck I've use to disable that on my regular drives. Page file gets written to a lot by Windows OS, I used to place it on a secondary crappy drive when I didn't have enough RAM, now I use no paging file, browser cache is usually just a lot of BS files you may or may not need again (by the browser) you can reduce that in your browsers cache setting to even 0. Search Index, who really uses OS search to find files? Ever heard of properly saving your files in a sensible tree structure? That eliminates the need for any search index, OS or some 3rd party crap. Then you have those members that complain of HD noises, guess what if you have search index running it starts to scan the file system when idle (aka you're attempting to sleep) and hence the random noises.

 

Drive manufactures make money selling more drives, they could care less if you hit the write count to kill your SSD sooner than expected, but if you are a optimizer you can prolong your SSD's life by reducing the BS write counts by doing the above, then again it also works for a spinning drive.

 

 

samsung has ;D they even made a tool called samsung ssd magician , download it and it helps maintain your ssd 

Will moving the page file to an HDD reduce performance? I downloaded Samsung Magician and set it to Maximum Performance. If I set it to Maximum Capacity will it move my page file to the HDD?

[IdeaStormer]

Will moving the page file to an HDD reduce performance? I downloaded Samsung Magician and set it to Maximum Performance. If I set it to Maximum Capacity will it move my page file to the HDD?

 

If you're the type of person who loads a ton of programs and leaves them on, yes (not that there's anything wrong with that or you if you do).

 

Contact Samsung to find out exactly what Max Perform. does or doesn't do.