Vista settings for new Intel SSD?

OK, I've just installed my new 160GB SSD and so far I'm most impressed. Lightroom and Photoshop leap into action almost immediately. However, I', not sure about how to maintain the performance.

I've switched off the automatic defrag - that was fairly obvious. But I'm in a quandary about Superfetch. I've read loads of various fora and there are two schools of thought -

1. Superfetch involves a lot of writing and erasing of items on the disk. This is likely to hasten any degradation in performance. Besides, the SSD is fast enough to make Superfetch irrelevant. So switch it off.

2. RAM is still a lot faster than the SSD - so Superfetch will still give a speed boost. The latest Intel drives cope with loads of read/writes much better than other SSDs so Superfetch won't degrade performance that much. So keep it on.

Now both sound reasonable arguments. Any comments?

 

Use superfetch. It always helps in my experience. Superfetch will take a lot of HDD time, but with fast SSD, the loading process will take no time at all. Then the OS will not access the SSD as much as the RAM. RAM is still a couple to triple of magnitude faster, at least.

 

superfetch can only increase performance, espencially on an ssd like the intel ones, where preloading data doesn't harm any other disk accesses.

disable auto defragmentation, that's the ONLY special thing you have to do. really the only thing.

 

OK, thanks for the info - backs up what I thought myself.