Tips To Prolong Life & Maximize Performance of SSD

Purchased an SSD recently, will be fitting it into my Samsung Series 7 NP700Z7C laptop as soon as it arrives. Will also be removing my optical bay. Resulting in a primary SSD, and secondary HDD for storage. SSD - 250GB, HDD 5400RPM 1TB.

Am positive one of you have a similar storage set up (Primary SSD, secondary HDD). How do you distribute your files? e.g. O/S, Games, Applications, Torrent downloads, Movies, Drivers
Also will some options in the BIOS require alterations?

Any extra tips/facts I should be aware of and why to maximize and - especially - prolong life? All I am currently aware of is to not defrag (total noob here)


BIOS (IF NEEDED)

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My setup is pretty similar. I'll let others speak to the optimizations, but I have my OS and programs on the SSD, and all data on the HDD (including my desktop, downloads, and other default user folders [right click, go to properties, find location tab, move to data drive]).

 

Unless if you're going to heavily use your SSD every day (video editing for example) for 50-100 years or you use it for heavy server workload, you don't need to worry about write endurance: The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte - The Tech Report - Page 1

Your main concern would be the controller or firmware chip going bad.

EDIT: And yeah, avoid defragging. That's not needed.

 

OS and apps on SSD. Everything else on hard drive. Except maybe some games might benefit from SSD, otherwise put on HDD. Just do a clean install of Windows on the SSD (don't copy/image from a current HDD install), about all you need to worry about.

 

Dude, there's no need to worry about endurance anymore. Even the crappy TLC NAND 120gb Samsung SSDs can withstand close to a petabyte of writes before you even notice an issue.