SSD Tips and Tweaks
Come, share your tips!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Personal Computing
Guys, I know a few of us have SSDs. I'm pretty sure more do than we know.
What say we all share any tips or tweaks we might have so we can all benefit from each other's knowledge.
Or maybe we can ask a question, someone else may have the answer.
I'll start by saying I have an OCZ Vertex Plus 120 GB. Sata II on a Sata II Mobo.
Currently, I get the following stats when testing. I wonder how this compares with yours and if it can be tweaked.
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Reply #84 Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:28 PM
My 120 will no doubt end up in my lappy. I'll be wanting a bigger one for the main rig. Now, what do we do about the prefetch and superfetch?
Off or on?
Reply #86 Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:46 AM
Off or on?
Off, Stumphumper
Wow....the hick got one right!
Reply #89 Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:40 AM
Just checked my SSD again with 'SSDLife free'...
Been powered up for 2 years, 6 months and 2 days 12 hours....
Powered on 74 times....
Health 98%
Estimated TEC - May 28, 2020. [it's an OCZ Summit 64gig.]...
Reply #90 Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:53 AM
Can we get any compiled tips added to the op? I looked through the thread and found some links to tweak guides (from 2010), but I'm not sure if they are good or what. I have a nice setup, but I'd love to know I have everything configured well. Thanks to anyone posting tweak guides, suggestions, etc.
Reply #91 Saturday, May 12, 2012 1:10 AM
@pacov - As far as I know*, the tech behind SSD's hasn't changed enough to warrant any tips or tweaks that haven't already been discussed or linked to in this thread. The only ones that I can think of that are really necessary are enabling AHCI and making sure that TRIM is on. Beyond that, it's all personal preference. If you're on Win 7 then you should be pretty much good to go once those last two things are done.
*If anyone knows better then I'll happily stand corrected.
Reply #93 Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:41 AM
I thought you might like a platter to compare to. Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB
I pulled my SSD because it had a unrecoverable bootsector that I thought was due to a bad disk. Turns out uninstalling VMLite is what did it (repeated it's performance on a platter) So I'll be re-installing in a couple hours.
Reply #94 Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:46 AM
Next one looks like it'll be an OCZ Vertex 3 240gig.....looks like reasonable bang per buck...
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Reply #98 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:04 PM
Guess who wishes they waited on getting their drive?
Ah well, good news for you folks if this is still in stock...
Reply #99 Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:36 PM
heya, kind of unrelated
but has anyone tried moving their pagefile to a RAM drive? like ppl with more than 8gb since SINS can't use more than 4gb? if so what was the performance difference?
I ran sins on a 4.6ghz 2500k the other day and got 15fps late game. Considering either setting up a RAM drive or a 240gb SSD with the pagefile on it.
Reply #100 Monday, May 21, 2012 2:22 AM
I think the best place for a pagefile will be the OS drive...on a SSD. Anything else should see a performance loss....
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Reply #81 Monday, May 7, 2012 1:41 PM
Experiment:
This is a Corsair GT connected to a plain jane Intel controller (SATA 3). I'll try it again later connected to a SATA 6 controller to see what difference it makes.