Guys, I got an SSD for my xmas and installed it in my laptop. I've noticed a difference but am keen to find ways to tweak Vista to make better use of the SSD. I've read things about disabling AHCI and turning off indexing etc. Has anyone seen any good guides or lists of tweaks anywhere? TIA.
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=148337 See also: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=157781 MS Hotfix for Native Command Queuing: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960735/en-us Tweaks for Running a Solid State Drive under Vista Disable -------- Auto Defrag, Indexing, Write Caching, Short File Names, NTFS Timestamp. Vista Automatic Defrag ----------------------- 1. Click Start 2. Click Control Panel 3. Select the Control Panel Home 4. Click System and Maintenance 5. Under the Administrative Tools section at the bottom, click Defragment your hard drive 6. Click or unclick Run automatically (recommended) depending if you want this feature enabled or disabled. 7. Click OK Remove Indexing ---------------- 1. Go to, Start (blue marble) > Computer 2. Right click on your drive and select 'properties' 2. Uncheck 'index this drive for faster searching' Disable Write Caching ---------------------- 1. From the Device Manager expand the disk drives category 2. Right click your drive. Select 'Properties' from the menu then click on the 'Policies' tab 3. Uncheck 'Enable write caching on the disk' Disable Short File Names ------------------------- The run command: fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1 Note that the Windows XP environment variables %TEMP% and %TMP% typically use short names. Program installations sometimes use these variables If this change causes trouble and you need to restore the short name function, the command is; fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 0 Disable Timestamp for Last Access ---------------------------------- The run command: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 Note that some backup programs may need this information. If you wish to restore the timestamp, the command is; fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0
Thanks guys. Vista is reinstalled and tweaked now and I'm not seeing any of the pausing I saw before. What's the best apps for benchmarking these days? I understand a lot of benchmark tools don't do 'real world' testing and as such aren't particularly relevant.
Well, if you want something to compare it to, you could try ATTO benchmark, here: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1137/ATTO_Disk_Benchmark_v2.34.html I posted results from my SSD at the end of this thread. The first image is a 500gb WD disk drive and the second is the 64gb Core SSD: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=157781 Otherwise, try HDTach: http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
