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Disable scheduled disk defragmentation in Windows 7
Defragging your SSD can theoretically shorten its lifespan because SSD cells can support only a certain number of write operations (usually around 10,000 writes per cell)
1. Click on Start and type dfrgui in the Search bar
2. Highlight your SSD and click on Configure Schedule
3. Make sure Run on a schedule is unchecked. If it's checked, uncheck it ... and your done.
Make sure TRIM support is enabled
TRIM helps to avoid write performance degradation because of the way it handles deletes and writes.
1. Open elevated command prompt by clicking on Start, typing cmd right click on the icon and click run as Administrator.
2. In the command prompt window, type fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify - press enter
3. Note: DisableDeleteNotify = 0 means that TRIM is enabled and DisableDeleteNotify = 1 means that it's disabled.
4. Type exit and press enter to exit cmd.
Disable hibernation
Only use this if you do NOT use hibernation
Disabling hibernation will free up about the same amount as your ram
1. Click on Start, type cmd, right-click on the cmd icon and select Run as Administrator
2. In the command prompt window type powercfg -h off and press Enter
3. Type exit and press enter to exit cmd
Disable indexing
Indexing performs many small write operations that keep the database of
file indexed, the fewer writes there are to an SSD, the longer it will last and
Windows search will perform just as well with indexing switched off.
1. Go to Start and click on Computer
2. Right-click on your SSD drive and select Properties
3. Untick Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to
file properties.
Enable write caching
The main advantage of SSDs vs hard drives is increased speed, write caching can still improve its performance
1. Click on Start, right-click on Computer and go to Properties
2. Click on the Device Manager on the left-hand side
3. Open the Disk drives section, right-click on your drive, select Properties
and go to the Policies tab
4. Check Enable write caching on the disk and click OK
Move your page file
Because it's best to reduce writes to SSD moving the page file to another drive is a good idea.
1. Click on Start, right-click on Computer and go to Properties choose Advanced System Settings link on the left-hand side and go to Settings under Performance.
2. Go to the Advanced tab, find Virtual memory and click Change uncheck the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives checkbox.
3. Under Drive [Volume Label], click on the drive where you want to change the size of virtual memory. If your system uses a mechanical HDD in addition to an SSD, it's best to move the page file there.
4. Click Custom size and type the new size in MB in the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB) boxes. Make sure it's the same amount to prevent your CPU from having to constantly adjusting virtual memory.
5. Click Set and then click OK.
Defragging your SSD can theoretically shorten its lifespan because SSD cells can support only a certain number of write operations (usually around 10,000 writes per cell)
1. Click on Start and type dfrgui in the Search bar
2. Highlight your SSD and click on Configure Schedule
3. Make sure Run on a schedule is unchecked. If it's checked, uncheck it ... and your done.
Make sure TRIM support is enabled
TRIM helps to avoid write performance degradation because of the way it handles deletes and writes.
1. Open elevated command prompt by clicking on Start, typing cmd right click on the icon and click run as Administrator.
2. In the command prompt window, type fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify - press enter
3. Note: DisableDeleteNotify = 0 means that TRIM is enabled and DisableDeleteNotify = 1 means that it's disabled.
4. Type exit and press enter to exit cmd.
Disable hibernation
Only use this if you do NOT use hibernation
Disabling hibernation will free up about the same amount as your ram
1. Click on Start, type cmd, right-click on the cmd icon and select Run as Administrator
2. In the command prompt window type powercfg -h off and press Enter
3. Type exit and press enter to exit cmd
Disable indexing
Indexing performs many small write operations that keep the database of
file indexed, the fewer writes there are to an SSD, the longer it will last and
Windows search will perform just as well with indexing switched off.
1. Go to Start and click on Computer
2. Right-click on your SSD drive and select Properties
3. Untick Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to
file properties.
Enable write caching
The main advantage of SSDs vs hard drives is increased speed, write caching can still improve its performance
1. Click on Start, right-click on Computer and go to Properties
2. Click on the Device Manager on the left-hand side
3. Open the Disk drives section, right-click on your drive, select Properties
and go to the Policies tab
4. Check Enable write caching on the disk and click OK
Move your page file
Because it's best to reduce writes to SSD moving the page file to another drive is a good idea.
1. Click on Start, right-click on Computer and go to Properties choose Advanced System Settings link on the left-hand side and go to Settings under Performance.
2. Go to the Advanced tab, find Virtual memory and click Change uncheck the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives checkbox.
3. Under Drive [Volume Label], click on the drive where you want to change the size of virtual memory. If your system uses a mechanical HDD in addition to an SSD, it's best to move the page file there.
4. Click Custom size and type the new size in MB in the Initial size (MB) and Maximum size (MB) boxes. Make sure it's the same amount to prevent your CPU from having to constantly adjusting virtual memory.
5. Click Set and then click OK.
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