Installing OS on SSD

I am getting a laptop without an OS. I have a 100GB SSD as my primary drive. Is there anything special I have to do in order to install Windows 7 on to it?

 

It's the same deal, windows will align the disk format and partition it correctly. There are however some steps after the installation is complete.

SSD Tweak Guide

 

Alright thanks! Was just curious, I've never dealt with solid state before.

 

Make sure defrag is disabled and TRIM is enabled. NOTHING else and i stretch NOTHING is necessary. You can go through the other "tweaks" if you want, but some are more likely to either offer no benefits or slightly cripple the system.

Look into what each function that tweaking guide tells you to disable and about what they do. It is very likely that you will still want some of those features enabled. Prefetch/Superfetch and Indexing do not need to be turned off and i see no reason to. Page file, system restore and hibernate are entirely up to you.

 

Not sure if 100gb is after format or not but a formatted one will be around 90gb? the o.s. is about 30, pagefile and system restore can be about 10 (unless you disable them) basically after the installation you will end up with 50% capacity left. Unless it's just a boot drive in which case you can set up a page file on the hdd. You will end up with a ssd that performs like a hdd because it's full. They lose quite a bit of performance when they are close to full.

 

Thanks for the replies. Yeah it is going to be just the boot drive with maybe a couple games on it. I have a separate 750gb drive for storage.

 

I'm cool with page file and hibernate being disabled, i disabled hibernate on my desktop and shrunk the page file on all my SSDs, but they aren't a necessity like defrag and TRIM which is what i expressed. I was more concerned with someone blindly following the guide especially since it doesn't explain what the features do and the pros and cons of turning them off.