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    SSD Drive Question

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Judas543, Jun 19, 2011.

  1. Judas543

    Judas543 Notebook Consultant

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    If someone could point me into SSD history, a reliable source. I would like to know all about how the SSD works and what's the meaning of limited writes and reliable tweaks, since I hear do you need pagefile, defrag, or indexing?

    I see all of these tweaks around but not sure if they are correct. I wanted to ask here, cause I know that I would get some great feedback =D
     
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    kinda, is there any more indepth ones
     
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    LVNeptune Notebook Virtuoso

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    You heard wrong.

    You do NOT want to use pagefile, defrag, or index.
     
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    i hear you should never do a "long format" and only a "quick format" - is that true? any place i can go to learn about the "do's" and "Don'ts" for a first time SSD owner? rather not burn up a 2-300$ drive the first week in over something silly.
     
    zero2005, Jun 20, 2011
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    It is true. Basically with an SSD you don't need to do any maintenance to do with the filesystem.

    You want to avoid Defrag and a long format because besides wasting your SSD's write cycles, SSDs will keep files neat and tidy by itself.

    A bit more here about Windows 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Microsoft_Windows
     
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    ah, i figured as much. when i saw that it basically defrags itself, and "cuts out the fat" so to say if i'm understanding that right? (eg basically never writes to bad sectors?) i saw that and was like "holy crap, why cant platter drives do that?" lol

    thanks for the info. i'll be sure to read it :D lookin to get a crucial M4 when i get back to states. really want a 128GB, but i might have to opt for a 64 :(
     
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    It doesn't defrag itself, but it doesn't really need it.

    There can be bad sectors/blocks. It depends on the drive firmware behaviour to mark them as bad and not to use them.
     
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