[Tip] Long life Solid State Drive

[anon(9177257)]

Why u should put these settings on.
Every SSD has an maximum write and read blocks. After all those millions of blocks are gone your SSD can give some annoying errors that will be the result of an defect SSD. So you have to replace them.

First you have to turn your automatic defrag off. Hard disk have an great defrag support. But for an SSD is it not needed and even it wont speed your SSD up. You can turn your defrag settings off simply by typing "Defrag"



Be sure you have the same settings as i do.



Virtual Memory
Virtual memory can be a lot of resources on our SSD. I only recommend to this when u got more than 4GB of RAM.

Go to settings of "This PC" > "Advanced Settings" > "Advanced" > "Virtual Memory"


You can turn "Geen Wisselbestand" on. This means your Surface wont create an log file when your Surface crash. You can also turn it later on when needed. Our you can choose for an maximum size of 800MB (What i recommend) error log file.

Sorry for the Dutch pictures. They are from my own Surface Pro 3 i5, 8GB RAM

There are more settings to do. But the most of the other tricks only works when u got 2 locations to put your files on. If u put this settings on your SSD have an longer life and haven't to do some functions that's not needed.

 

[xandros9]

Windows 8 already accounts for SSDs so one does not have to disable Defragmentation, now called Optimization because of that. (earlier versions of Windows, yes, disable it)

Windows 8 doesn't defragment SSDs, it TRIMs them, which is proper.

 

[rhapdog]

With an SSD, the problem with "using up the drive" is with drive writes. Reads do no damage.

If you had a 128GB SSD, you would have to write to it continuously for years before it failed. Generally speaking, when an SSD fails, it is almost always the controller or other electronics that fails before the data storage.

Unless there is some type of fault in the controller, or some type of power surge that damages it, the SSD will more than likely easily outlast the computer it is installed in. It will most definitely outlast the lifetime of a typical Hard Drive.

Using an SSD for virtual memory is a great way to boost performance on machines with less than 6GB of RAM. z

That SP3 will be dead before the SSD, so don't stress over it.

 

[anon(9177257)]

Thanks for the answers, you could be true about the SSD. I'm just an Network Engineer myself. The fact about the Windows Pagefile could be helpful when people has an low amount of GB on there SD.

 

[James8561]

there have been experiments out there that writes hundreds of terabytes to SSDs continously for months without failing. with the average user's usage, the SSD in the SP won't fail before the device is beyond obsolete.

 

[xandros9]

Now we've been reassured on that front, we can all panic about the battery now! Woo!

 

[maflynn]

Thanks for the answers, you could be true about the SSD. I'm just an Network Engineer myself. The fact about the Windows Pagefile could be helpful when people has an low amount of GB on there SD.

Depending on your usage, and installed ram, going w/o the Pagefile is a good idea. If you're running PS or other apps that can consumer a lot of resources, monitor the task manager and see if you'll run into deep weeds.

 

[Kebero]

Windows 8/8.1 handles paging very well. There isn't any need to fiddle with it. Those of us who William in the industry often get too hung up on how we used to do things that we tend to forget that there are advancements in technology.

 

[th34monk3ys]

Just to let you know if a user writes 10gb of data a day for 10 years an ssd will die!

Serious fact!

Also I have 32gb ram on desktop, some apps need a swap! I limited to 1gb, I would recommend when using ssd not using the 1.5x ram rule!

There is a nice program that sets your ssd up on win7 upwards called ssd tweaker click on auto and does rest for you!

 

[Kebero]

1.5x RAM is no longer a rule for modern systems.

 

[rhapdog]

Just to let you know if a user writes 10gb of data a day for 10 years an ssd will die!

Serious fact!

Another fact. If a user writes 10GB of data per day for 5 years to a standard HDD, it will never last 5 years. SSD therefore would be more durable an last longer. Yay!