Windows SSD settings

[tns1]

For current generation SSDs, are the following windows settings still recommended?



Disk indexing disable
Defragmenter disable
System protection disable
Paging file disable
Prefetch disable
Superfetch disable
Hybernate/sleep disable

Trim enabled

 

[wither 2]

This is for Win 10 but I think it would be pertinent to any system running on a SSD-

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However, I don't know why system protection would be disabled. If it is, you wouldn't be able to do a system restore, if desired. I didn't do any research of why it would be disabled.

 

[tns1]

It is possible that disabling system protection was a recommendation for 1st gen SSDs. The site I found claimed that system protection was writing to the disk often, so the concern was to avoid excessive writes. Unless there is a background process I don't know about, system protect only writes to create restore points which isn't that often. I am waiting to hear what best practice is.



I have made all the other recommended settings, and the system speed has not suffered because of it.

 

[wither 2]

Thanks for the additional information. I think the excessive writes might be due the protection system Volume Shadow Copying.

Looks like you're good to go.

 

[LMiller7]

A general recommendation to disable the pagefile simply because you have an SSD is a serious mistake.

If you have a large amount of memory disabling the pagefile is reasonable. I am not saying it is a good idea. But with less RAM this can have serious consequences. With no pagefile the commit limit will be somewhat less than RAM size and that may not be enough. This is a hard limit that cannot be exceeded. This has nothing to do with how much RAM is in use or available. If application or system activity would exceed the commit limit, bad things will happen. Some applications can handle this gracefully, others will simply crash and lose unsaved data.

With default pagefile configuration the commit limit will be about twice RAM size. And this is a soft limit that can be expanded if necessary. Hitting the commit limit is then a rare situation unless there is a serious problem.

Having a pagefile provides other benefits I will not go into at this time.

 

[file3456]

Yeah, you don't have to disable the pagefile and I never do. And I've read today's SSDs are better with wear leveling, etc. You do want to make sure it's aligned. Use AS SSD to find out. Also, in the SSD software that may have came with the drive or can be downloaded from the hard drive manufacturer website, I'd over provision the drive.

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