{"id":893,"date":"2012-02-10T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=893"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:49:10","slug":"solid-state-drives-ssd-config-best-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2012\/02\/solid-state-drives-ssd-config-best-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid State Drives SSD config (Best Practice)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From all the reading I have done on SSDs this is a known list of best practices in order to minimise read\/write and maintain its health for longer:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5e\/Vertex_2_Solid_State_Drive_by_OCZ-top_oblique_PNr%C2%B00307.jpg\" alt=\"Wiki SSD\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disable <a title=\"Superfetch\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Vista_I\/O_technologies#SuperFetch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SuperFetch<\/a> (Windows 7) this performs the same as <\/strong><strong><a title=\"Instruction prefetch\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cache_prefetching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prefetch<\/a><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>services.msc -&gt; SuperFetch Properties -&gt; Disabled<\/li>\n<li>run -&gt; &#8220;net stop superfetch&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>run -&gt; &#8220;sc config sysmain start= disabled&#8221; (This will set the Sysmain (Superfetch) Service startup to disabled)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disable Disk Defragmenter Schedule (Windows 7):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>run -&gt; &#8220;dfrgui&#8221; (Disk Defrag Interface)<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Configure Schedule&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Select disks&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Unselect SSDs<\/li>\n<li>Alternatively you could just remove all defrag schedules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disable\/Move <a title=\"Page File\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pagefile<\/a> (Windows 7):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Win+Pause (System Properties) -&gt; Advanced system settings -&gt; &#8220;Advanced&#8221; Tab -&gt; Performance &#8220;settings&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In Performance Options -&gt; &#8220;Advanced&#8221; Tab&nbsp; -&gt; Virtual Memory &#8220;Change&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In Virtual Memory -&gt; Untick &#8220;Automatically manage paging file size for all drives. -&gt; Select SSD letter -&gt; &#8220;No paging file&#8221; -&gt; Set -&gt; OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disable Disk Indexing (Windows 7):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Computer -&gt; Select SSD -&gt; right click &#8220;Properties -&gt; Untick &#8220;Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed to addtion to file properties&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also disable the Search Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>run -&gt; &#8220;net stop WSearch&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>run -&gt; &#8220;sc config WSearch start= disabled&#8221; (This will set the WSearch (Windows Search) Service startup to disabled)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><!--more-->References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Superfetch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/disable-and-turn-off-vista-superfetch\/\">http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/disable-and-turn-off-vista-superfetch\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Disk Defrag: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/3292-disk-defragmenter-schedule-turn-off.html\">http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/3292-disk-defragmenter-schedule-turn-off.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Disk Indexing: <a title=\"Disable Search Indexing In Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/windows-tips\/disable-search-indexing-in-windows-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/windows-tips\/disable-search-indexing-in-windows-7\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From all the reading I have done on SSDs this is a known list of best practices in order to minimise read\/write and maintain its health for longer: Disable SuperFetch (Windows 7) this performs the same as Prefetch: services.msc -&gt; SuperFetch Properties -&gt; Disabled run -&gt; &#8220;net stop superfetch&#8221; run -&gt; &#8220;sc config sysmain start= [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}