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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Now that I have this thing installed, and TRIM enabled through the console (thanks Scott), are there any other things I should know about?
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Yes, there is one more thing to know about SSD - don't baby it, don't lay awake at night worrying about TRIM algorithms and write amplification, don't benchmark it like a obsessive compulsive to see how it's holding up.
Just USE IT, and enjoy it. They are fantastic.
Edit: I looked at those tweaktown suggested optimizations. I wouldn't bother with most of that stuff.
In particular, turning off file access time stamping can cause odd issues with apps that may use file dates for internal purposes.
Disabling indexing is silly too - they say to do because the SSD seeks faster, but I don't care what they say - searching an index of files is gonna be faster than searching the file system itself.
Disabling power management on the SSD is dumb too. If the SSD doesn't support power management, it will simply ignore the command to spin down. If it does support power management, its because it has a power managed mode that will help laptops.
Disabling prefetch and superfetch is dumb. The author of the article doesn't know what pre-binding is, and why you want those DLL's loaded and ready to go.
Disabling system restore is extremely silly. It only uses a fixed percentage of your hard drive space. It's vital if you need to roll back a bad patch or in an emergency where the computer is f#$*&^$ but your term paper or report is due tomorrow and the machine has to work.
The only advice they give that is correct is to turn off scheduled defrags - defrags will cause wear and tear that is of no benefit.