SSD in Laptop, Do you need to tweak the Vista? or...

If you are using SSD on your desktop, you will know what I am talking about.
You need to do a lot of stuff (editing and tweaking the vista) in order to maximize the performance of SSD. Without this tweaking, SSD will work a bit faster than normal HD at 7200Rpm. If you did the tweaking correctly, SSD will work a lot faster. I used 250GB SSD on my desktop and the tweaking is pain in the . I spent more than 8 hours tweaking it until there is no error.
Read this SSD tweaking for more info,
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47212

Now back to the real question,

Do you need all those tweaking for the SSD in Laptop? or The tweaking only for Desktop?
(I believe that you need the tweaking in laptop as well because both of them is using Vista/XP OS)

I do not want to take my SSD desktop and try it to my laptop because I do not want to go through all those tweaking that wasted a lot of time.
So, I need your opinion for those who is using SSD for your laptop.

Thank You.

 

You know, if you have a good SSD, you shouldn't really need to tweak it in a laptop or a desktop. Aside from simple things like disabling pagefiles, indexing, superfetch, and the like, all Intel, Mtron, Samsung solutions should be ready to go out of the box. It's just a certain group of lousy JMicron drives that need the tweaks.

That being said, if given drive needs to be tweaked on a desktop, that same drive will need to be tweaked on a laptop. There's really no difference.

 

i haven't done any tweaks on my ssd's. samsungs and mtrons i have. no need to tweak them. most of the tweaks reduce functionality of your os.

 

don't vista has built in ssd support?

i want a ssd, but a good one is too expensive.. guess i'm stuck to my crappy z 320gb.

 

Vista isn't designed w/ SSDs in mind. It will still take some time before it is their time. I'm sure the 320GB drive you have is fine.

 

vista does a lot of things right on an ssd, but not because it's targeted for it, but just because it happens to do these things better than xp (partition alignment comes to mind) and ssds benefit from this.

but yes, it doesn't specifically support them. just disable defragment, else no tweakin. vista is best the way it is.

 

OK, a loaded question: when ordering a SSD equipped laptop from a manufacturer, does the manufacturer ensure the settings are correct (i.e. defragment disabled, etc)?

Asking, as yes, I ordered one with a SSD preinstalled, and I'm trying to determine if I need to do anything to it once it arrives or if it'll be in proper config already...

 

No, they do not tweak anything.

 

Right, but then again most manufacturers ship samsung drives which don't need tweaking. Bottom line is, if you don't want to tweak, buy a samsung, intel or mtron drive (or rebrands of those).

 

The Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide below was created through use of the ssd but it applies to all. You will see immediate improvement as soon as you start using the ssd but, twaeking is that little push everyone likes. Its not necessary though

 

Only tweak you need to do is turning off auto defrag and superfetch for a good SSD drive.

 

Turn off System Restore + Drive Indexing if you turn them off for a regular HDD; absolutely no harm in turning them off for an SSD as well, it definitely helps prevent unneeded drive usage.

 

turning off indexing means turning of one of the nice functionality of vista. and indexing doesn't use much disk usage once it's done it's index. only updates file changes. (but i do reconfigure it to not go to AppData and Local and LocalLow, as i don't want to be able to search files there, and thus the indexing has much less updates to do.

and system restore, only turn it off if you have a full backup solution (like windows home server). else, reconfigure it to only a small amount. you will hate yourself the moment you need it.