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    SSD Tweak Tool

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by joeking78, Mar 12, 2009.

  1. joeking78

    joeking78 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I found this today: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49779

    Its a SSD tweaking tool developed by someone at OCZ and looks very interesting to anyone who owns a SSD. Mine arrives on Saturday so I'll be able to give some feedback on it.

    Sorry if this is a repost but I searched and found nothing.

    Cheers
     
    joeking78, Mar 12, 2009
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  2. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

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    Nice :)

    In order to give a proper feedback, try the SSD first without the tweak tool to see what it really does :)
     
    Michel.K, Mar 12, 2009
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    joeking78 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I also found this, for people who want to make the changes manually:

    Disable
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    Prefetch & Superfetch, Auto Defrag, Indexing, Write Caching, Short File Names, NTFS Timestamp. Disable ACHI in BIOS before Vista install

    Vista Automatic Defrag
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    1. Click Start
    2. Click Control Panel
    3. Select the Control Panel Home
    4. Click System and Maintenance
    5. Under the Administrative Tools section at the bottom, click Defragment your hard drive
    6. Click or unclick Run automatically (recommended) depending if you want this feature enabled or disabled.
    7. Click OK

    Remove Indexing
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    1. Go to, Start (blue marble) > Computer
    2. Right click on your drive and select 'properties'
    2. Uncheck 'index this drive for faster searching'

    Disable Write Caching
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    1. From the Device Manager expand the disk drives category
    2. Right click your drive. Select 'Properties' from the menu then click on the 'Policies' tab
    3. Uncheck 'Enable write caching on the disk'

    Disable Short File Names
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    The run command:

    fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1

    Note that the Windows XP environment variables %TEMP% and %TMP% typically use short names. Program installations sometimes use these variables. If this change causes trouble and you need to restore the short name function, the command is; fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 0

    Disable Timestamp for Last Access
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    The run command:

    fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

    Note that some backup programs may need this information. If you wish to restore the timestamp, the command is; fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0
     
    joeking78, Mar 12, 2009
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