| Windows 7: SSD Maintenance Guide? |
11 Feb 2010
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SSD Maintenance Guide? Good Evening (or Night, Morning, or Afternoon as appropriate for international users :P),
I was wondering if there was any sort of guide here for maintaining and prolonging the life of SSD drives. Being an owner of a Dell Mini 9, that's pretty important to me since it uses SSD as the main storage device.
I know not to defragment it, but past that, I am unsure of what seemingly normal activities might actually be sapping the life out of it. For example, I don't know if system scans might drain it somehow (antivirus, antimalware, etc.), or if I should try to have a pagefile on another drive, if that's even possible with an external drive (for example, I'm currently using a SDHC card for ReadyBoost; could I move the pagefile there, etc.)
Any suggestions would be well appreciated!
--Red | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Dimension 4600 OS Windows 7, Super OS 9.10 CPU Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz Memory 2.0 GB DDR2 Graphics Card ATI Radeon 9550, 256MB, AGP 8x Monitor(s) Displays Compaq MV500 VGA (yes, it *is* ancient.) |
11 Feb 2010
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#2 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x32 Macedonia |
....That’s right. Hyperfast is this new technology that we have available in Diskeeper 2009. It is dedicated to addressing these optimization problems with solid state drives....
More here | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Micro-Star International/MS-7529 OS Windows 7 Ultimate x32 CPU DualCore Intel Pentium E2200, 2218 MHz (11 x 202) Motherboard MSI G31M3 V2 (MS-7529) (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x16,2 DDR2 DIMM) Memory 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM Graphics Card nVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 1GB Sound Card Realtek ALC888/1200 @ Intel 82801GB ICH7 Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 2253BW (Digital) 22'' LCD Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Hard Drives SAMSUNG HD322IJ ATA Device (298 GB , IDE) |
11 Feb 2010
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#3 | | Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 |
If your SSD has TRIM support great, if not, performance will eventually degrade as the cells in the SSD are not being properly cleared. So you may run wiper.exe to fix the issue. I would check with Dell what SSD this is. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Sony Vaio Z46GDU OS Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 CPU P9700@2.8GHz 1066MHz FSB Motherboard Sony branded Memory 6GB DDR3 1066MHz Graphics Card 9300M GS 256MB Dedicated (Speed) + Intel4500MHD (Stamina) Sound Card Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays 13.1' WXGA Screen Resolution 1600x900 Hard Drives 320GB 7200RPM w/ 16MB cache Internet Speed 1MB/s |
11 Feb 2010
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#4 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
If it is an Intel, this may be useful. Some more interesting facts here. And here is a Tweak Utility. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 |
22 Feb 2010
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The SSD is an STEC PATA 16GB SSD. From what I can tell, it's Flash-based. How can I tell if it has TRIM support? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Dimension 4600 OS Windows 7, Super OS 9.10 CPU Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz Memory 2.0 GB DDR2 Graphics Card ATI Radeon 9550, 256MB, AGP 8x Monitor(s) Displays Compaq MV500 VGA (yes, it *is* ancient.) |
22 Feb 2010
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#6 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
Open an elevated Command Prompt (run as admin) and paste this command into the Command Prompt window: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
If Command Prompt returns a 0 (zero), your drive supports TRIM and it is enabled.
If it returns 1 (one), the file system has disabled TRIM for your drive. This means your drive's controller does not support TRIM. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 |
06 May 2011
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Thanks WHS, I registered just to thank you for your posts ITT. Gracias | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 CPU Intel Core i7-920 Motherboard gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r Memory 6 GB Graphics Card ATI 5770 HD Sound Card Realtek Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster 172x (x2) PSU Dang guys I can't remember that Case ThermalTake Hard Drives Intel X-25, 80GB |
06 May 2011
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#8 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |

Quote: Originally Posted by jak09823hdfs WHS, I registered just to thank you for your posts ITT. Gracias That is very kind of you. Thank you. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 |
28 Nov 2011
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I also joined to say thanks WHS, that helped me as well. | My System Specs | | |
28 Nov 2011
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#10 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |

Quote: Originally Posted by sabot7734 I also joined to say thanks WHS, that helped me as well. I am glad I could be of help. If you need more info, let us know. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 SSD Maintenance Guide? problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:48 PM. | |