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    SSD Performance Optimization Tips and Tricks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by D111, Oct 25, 2008.

  1. D111

    D111 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I noticed that many people here are using their SSD with "out of the box" OS and Applications like Microsoft Vista, XP, Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, etc.

    All of these applications and OSes (including Mac Leopard, etc.) are designed for slow mechanical hard drives.

    The optimizations done to make them faster with hard drives tend to really screw up SSD performance.

    For a detailed discussion of the problems and how to make an SSD perform much faster (even the cheapest Asus-Phison drive used on the eeePC), go and follow this discussion and the tips in it.

    Google OCZ SSD freezing to fnd the thread in OCZ SSD Support Forum.

    I applied the tips to a bottom of the line Asus eee PC 1000 and got the SSDs (a joke -- the 32gb "ssd" is actually a SDHC card) to work as fast as or faster than a 7,200rpm notebook drive.
     
    D111, Oct 25, 2008
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    miro_gt Notebook Deity

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    and now you can delete your posting because it's ... uh ... useless. At least you should post the link.

    P.S. OSes are not designed for slow mechanical hard drives
     
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    Where are these tips you followed?
     
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  4. D111

    D111 Notebook Enthusiast

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    They don't let me post links until I have 15 posts...

    Here it is:

    The problems described can be fixed by following these links:

    http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43460

    http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43525

    A discussion of the technical issues as to why legacy OS like Vista, XP, and Apps like Microsoft Office cause problems with SSDs and what to do about it is here:

    http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42487

    It is interesting to note that these issues arise with ANY commonly available SSD, including and up to fairly modern and well designed ones like the Intel X-25.

    See: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44484


    While the problem in theory, do not need to occur in Linux, many distributions are optimized for HDD use, and thus, have the same problems as Vista and XP.

    Basically, what is needed is to eliminate the HDD optimizations (that causes lots of small file writes like superfetch and prefetch), things like background HDD defragmentation (that causes lots of small file write drive activity), and then, to recode the OS to do things that a good SSD optimizer does like Managed File Technology (MFT) from www.easyco.com.

    With these tweaks, I managed to get the super slow cheapie SSD on an Asus eee PC to perform.
     
    D111, Oct 28, 2008
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