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    Got an SSD, what now?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by un4tural, Oct 28, 2011.

  1. un4tural

    un4tural Notebook Evangelist

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    So i bought a Patriot inferno 120gb. working great so far, i put a clean copy of windows 7 x64.

    Noticed that windows didn't automatically turn off pagefile, so i did that and was wondering if i need to tick on or off any other boxes to get the most out of it.

    Also about TRIM, it says software dependent(something similar) so how do i put that ON.

    Also, everything is peachy, but game load times aren't that much faster, anything to remedy that? windows does boot way way way faster though. Way faster.
     
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    its ok to leave pagefile on? i thought it chews on the SSD quite hard.

    Thx for the help too, TRIM was on apparently and i offed the defrag.
     
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    Well, there will be more writes if the page file is on the SSD. At only 4GB RAM you might be pushing it without a page file though, if you can upgrade your AM to 8GB, then i'd say trash it completely. Limit the size for now at least.
     
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    I used to worry about writes too, but even 64gb SSDs have been real-world tested to survive for over 500tb of writes. I would not worry one bit about leaving the pagefile enabled.
     
    Syberia, Oct 29, 2011
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    ill leave it off :x i don't feel entirely safe about it, it is sandforce and i am a tad paranoid about it catching fire any moment, will just get some more RAM sometime later to stop windows from complaining about running out of RAM.

    Good old time when i was running 1gb ram and all the games would work... ;/ 512Kb was it that was supposed to be plenty for everybody as Gates said. One or another anyways.
     
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    i've transfered windows page file and all application cache writes to my HDD. And it works really well
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 30, 2011
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