Hi,
I am a new SSD owner and just installed win7 along with all my apps.
I know that SSD are different than HDD so i want to make sure everything is setup right to preserve my SSD's life/performance .
The SSD i got is Crucial C300 128gb, it is the latest revision (i think) 0006 . Using intel iaStor AHCI Controler driver which also is the latest version ( i think ) , version 10.
Now, I run windows 7, and made sure that TRIM was enabled.
I disabled the following :
- Indexing
- Superfetch
- boot time prefetching
- Defragmentation
- windows firewall
- windows defender
- windows updates
Here are my questions :
1. Is there anything else i should disable/enable ?
2. I notice that regardless of what is going on, even when not doing anything on the computer, the HDD led light is constantly blinking, i'd say 1 blink every second. This happens regardless of the situation, for example just now i tried closing all open application and just minimized firefox to stare at the desktop wallpaper and it didnt stop blinking. From what I understand about SSD, you would want to minimise useless read/write, so the fact that the HDD led is blinking constantly seems a bit worrying to me ? is this normal ?
3. I use my ssd to install all my applications, I dont install games or store media / documents, these are on a separate drive. I use photoshop on a regular basis, and the scratch drive are set to be on the SSD, if i look at temp files folder i see there is a 4.5gb photoshop temp file. I wonder if using ssd as photoshop scratch drive is a good ideal ? I know it is much faster but will it wear down the ssd too fast ?
Thanks for your help, looking forward to your answers.
I am a new SSD owner and just installed win7 along with all my apps.
I know that SSD are different than HDD so i want to make sure everything is setup right to preserve my SSD's life/performance .
The SSD i got is Crucial C300 128gb, it is the latest revision (i think) 0006 . Using intel iaStor AHCI Controler driver which also is the latest version ( i think ) , version 10.
Now, I run windows 7, and made sure that TRIM was enabled.
I disabled the following :
- Indexing
- Superfetch
- boot time prefetching
- Defragmentation
- windows firewall
- windows defender
- windows updates
Here are my questions :
1. Is there anything else i should disable/enable ?
2. I notice that regardless of what is going on, even when not doing anything on the computer, the HDD led light is constantly blinking, i'd say 1 blink every second. This happens regardless of the situation, for example just now i tried closing all open application and just minimized firefox to stare at the desktop wallpaper and it didnt stop blinking. From what I understand about SSD, you would want to minimise useless read/write, so the fact that the HDD led is blinking constantly seems a bit worrying to me ? is this normal ?
3. I use my ssd to install all my applications, I dont install games or store media / documents, these are on a separate drive. I use photoshop on a regular basis, and the scratch drive are set to be on the SSD, if i look at temp files folder i see there is a 4.5gb photoshop temp file. I wonder if using ssd as photoshop scratch drive is a good ideal ? I know it is much faster but will it wear down the ssd too fast ?
Thanks for your help, looking forward to your answers.