SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7

You're most welcome Omazic. :)

Personally (as everyone is painfully aware) I just clone to a second drive in the machine - 128GB M4 to a Seagate 500GB 6Gbs too easy

harmie said:

This and several others have been very educational to me. However I have a situation that some of you have already laughed at, and I have searched and searched and can't find the answer.
I have a 250Gig OCZ SSD Sata 11 with Windows 7 Ultimate on it I also already have a 500 Gig Seagate SSD that I would like to use for storage.
The problem is I read how to use Diskpart and align he SSD for the OS, but I can find nothing on how to use and configure a SSD for storage. The OS SSD was configured as the Primary Drive but how a I to set up the second SSD and configure it for storage? I need some step by step instructions here!
I know I am not posting this where it should be, but perhaps an adminstrator will repost it for me.
Please help!
Lost,
harmie

Hello Harmie,

You would just need to install and format the SSD like any other HDD to use it as a data drive. Nothing special needed to do at all. :)

harmie said:

This and several others have been very educational to me. However I have a situation that some of you have already laughed at, and I have searched and searched and can't find the answer.
I have a 250Gig OCZ SSD Sata 11 with Windows 7 Ultimate on it I also already have a 500 Gig Seagate SSD that I would like to use for storage.
The problem is I read how to use Diskpart and align he SSD for the OS, but I can find nothing on how to use and configure a SSD for storage. The OS SSD was configured as the Primary Drive but how a I to set up the second SSD and configure it for storage? I need some step by step instructions here!
I know I am not posting this where it should be, but perhaps an adminstrator will repost it for me.
Please help!
Lost,
harmie

Hiyya harmie mate don't get down in the mouth mate Brink has shoved you in th right direction. It's not really a big deal and believe me I am only sort of savvy and if I can do it you can - gotta believe in yourself mate:)

harmie said:

Sorry to contact you this way, but there are lots of post on this Site that says not to format a SSD. I have the OS installed and getting 7.2 on the WEI. I also have a new SSD with nothing on it, not even a Drive letter. Do I make it a primary disk also as the first with the OS? Or do I create a Simple Volume? I want it to be an extension of the first, so I can but the Program Files or Windows Logs, or I don't know which folders to add to it for storage. Users, Library's, or what. I have read and printed so much from your site that I am out of ink and so tired I could scream. I am disabled in a way that prevents me from setting up very long so I am at a disadvantage in this challenge. I have a newer computer with later drivers for the ATA/ATAPI controllers than lightningitd posted.

However no one says what to do with the new SSD- use Intel Management Interface Engine and create an extended volume-assign a title to the volume as a drive letter ( I thought it would be continued as drive C:\, make a simple volume, or what in order to get it to be a storage drive for the OS. Getting the right folders into the drive and move them from the OS SSD or creating them anew. There are so many questions because everyone discusses using a HHD as Storage in stead of a SSD and they don't get into enough detail for a layman. I keep searching, but I guess a lot of people don't use Alienware Computers with the Intel Management Engine Interface. I think a second SSD is also uncommon as a storage device!

Thanks so much for your help, I hope you can better understand my situation. That is the best I can explain it without questions I can understand and answer.

Thanks again.
harmie

Harmie,

You would basically just treat a SSD the same way you would a HDD, except that you do not defrag a SSD. :)

Since this is a separate physical SSD, it's free space cannot be added to your other SSD. Instead, all you will need to do is to indeed create a new simple volume from the unallocated space on the SSD that will format it and give it a drive letter. The tutorial below can give you more details on how to in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).

Partition or Volume - Create New

Afterwards, you will be able to save what you like to the new SSD. While installing some programs, they may give you the option to select where to install them at. If so, you could select the new SSD. The new SSD would be good to keep backups on as well.

Now I have my system running at something fairly good I decided to follow Leo's tut on transferring the User and TEMP files to my HDD form the SSD but nothing is happening and I am obviously doing something wrong and I cannot quite see what. The tut is using XP so my right click on Computer comes up slightly different.

I highlight the path I want to transfer and specify the E: drive as per Leo but a check afterwards shows nothing in the HDD. Can someone give me a pointer please?

Ok so I'm a rookie to the SSD world, but if I buy a new laptop and swap out the factory hard drive for a SSD should I be following these steps? I would be doing a clean install to start fresh so with that in mind, during the instillation process is this where the SSD tutorial comes into play?