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    Is it worth doing all these "optimizations" to my SSD?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by CC268, Jul 20, 2012.

  1. CC268

    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have always followed this guide here:

    The SSD Optimization Guide Redesigned - The SSD Review

    I know its worth to turn things off like Hibernation and of course Defragmenting, but I find that I have run into more problems following this guide and doing all these minor tweaks than it has done good...like turning restore points off and page file...I am going to do a clean install of Windows as I have run into some problems at boot that will need to be fixed and just want to get your opinions on this....

    Thanks
     
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    Clean install, eh? Windows 7? If so, don't bother w/ changing a thing... Unless you absolutely know you won't ever, ever, ever need it - in my case, hibernation is a good example.
     
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    That is what I figured, I will just turn off hibernation and auto defragmenting then
     
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    In regards to defragging / scheduling, if you do a clean install, Windows should already do that for you. It should also turn on TRIM, but it wouldn't hurt to check yourself after installation - From a command line running in "admin mode", run the following command fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify If TRIM is enabled this will report "0."
     
    jclausius, Jul 21, 2012
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