First of all, here are my specs:
PNY XLR8 PRO SSD9SC240GCDA-RB 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P AM3+/AM3 AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
(just in case its pertinent to anything) AMD FX-9370 Vishera 4.4GHz Socket AM3+ 220W Eight-Core Desktop Processor - Black Edition
I also have (dont remember model or brand) 16 GB of ddr3 SDRAM 1333
And i will be using two mechanical hard drives along with my SSG.
My goals: Install fresh windows 7 onto SSD along with 1 or 2 of my most commonly played video games. Nothing more will be used on the SSD. This should help with minimizing rewrites.
So i have been reading thread after thread trying to figure out a best practice for my SSD. Here are the most common suggestions (mostly from back in the start of
A lot of debate it seems between turning off file indexing. Some say its a waste to keep it on, other say its really smart on how it handles information so its better to keep it on. If i am installing games on mechanical drives, does that matter? Should i turn this on or off?
Like wise, I am to turn off hibernate i assume because there is no difference between hiberante and just turning on and off the PC?
Turn off Defrag, true or false? It makes a lot of sense to me why this is a smart thing to do. But i want to make sure. TRIM command is supposed to help on this front for an SSD. I dont really even know what TRIM does.
Also when i partition windows, if my SDD is 240 GB should i only partition 200 and leave 40 unused for the extra... stuff that it does or is that not needed now days on SSDs?
Lastly should i disable Prefatch, and Superfetch?
Any help is very much appreciated as i am 100% new to SSD. I dont know if the one i has is a good one or not, its what i could afford and had good reviews so i want to keep it working for as long as possible.
Thank you.
PNY XLR8 PRO SSD9SC240GCDA-RB 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P AM3+/AM3 AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
(just in case its pertinent to anything) AMD FX-9370 Vishera 4.4GHz Socket AM3+ 220W Eight-Core Desktop Processor - Black Edition
I also have (dont remember model or brand) 16 GB of ddr3 SDRAM 1333
And i will be using two mechanical hard drives along with my SSG.
My goals: Install fresh windows 7 onto SSD along with 1 or 2 of my most commonly played video games. Nothing more will be used on the SSD. This should help with minimizing rewrites.
So i have been reading thread after thread trying to figure out a best practice for my SSD. Here are the most common suggestions (mostly from back in the start of
A lot of debate it seems between turning off file indexing. Some say its a waste to keep it on, other say its really smart on how it handles information so its better to keep it on. If i am installing games on mechanical drives, does that matter? Should i turn this on or off?
Like wise, I am to turn off hibernate i assume because there is no difference between hiberante and just turning on and off the PC?
Turn off Defrag, true or false? It makes a lot of sense to me why this is a smart thing to do. But i want to make sure. TRIM command is supposed to help on this front for an SSD. I dont really even know what TRIM does.
Also when i partition windows, if my SDD is 240 GB should i only partition 200 and leave 40 unused for the extra... stuff that it does or is that not needed now days on SSDs?
Lastly should i disable Prefatch, and Superfetch?
Any help is very much appreciated as i am 100% new to SSD. I dont know if the one i has is a good one or not, its what i could afford and had good reviews so i want to keep it working for as long as possible.
Thank you.