Hi guys,

 

I have bought a Crucial M4 SSD, still being shipped, but before I install it I just want to know what the tweaks we have to do in windows to get the maximum out of it, in terms of longevity an stuff.

 

The list I gathered so far;

- Disable defrag

- Disable hibernation (more free space from not having the hiberfile)

- Disable indexing on that drive

- Disable pagefile (which I already do)

 

Anything else I should know that I'd have to do when I install Windows 7 on that SSD?

 

Thanks.

Those are the basics, the later 3 being good in general and the former being ssd specific. Haven't done anything else to my ssd setup and had no issues other than 1 dying within warranty, but that was an out of the box issue like ya sometimes get.

Thanks, so I guess I had a good list. Anyway, got my SSD today, not even 48 hours after ordering it, that's the main reason I love ncix.com so much for this reason plus their very good customer service.

 

Can't wait to see the performance of this thing. Going to put it in my laptop tomorrow while in the college lab, if the lab is not evaluated. My apartment floor is carpet all over so I don't want to take any chances with static electricity.

It really is a nice SSD, should give you a maximum WEI of 7.9. Anything less may be a cause for concern. Also I heard about new firmware being released to settle a bug that caused random BSOD after x amount of hours. I'm not sure if your SSD came with the latest but it may help to take a look at the latest updates and compare.

Yeah, I compared and the one written on the SSD is the latest, so no firmware update needed :).

Disable date last accessed... cuts out a few more fairly useless writes

http://windows7themes.net/registry-tweaks-how-to-disable-last-access-filestamp-in-windows-7.html

Thanks.

 

I keep getting blue screens, wondering if this means I got a bad SSD... And only loads by shots, very fast, but only something as if you played a game at 1 fps.

 

It's set to AHCI in the BIOS.

Sorry for the double post, but I am currently using the SSD on the desktop and it's extremely fast and works without issues, so I guess there might be a compatibility issue with my laptop? or maybe I should activate the UEFI boot? Never buying an Asus ROG laptop again.

 

Currently Updating Windows and doing the tweaks, but this is going to suck if I can't use it in the laptop.

 

Edit: With the SSD alone in the primary bay, it works like a charm in my laptop, so either the laptop only accepts the OS being in the primary hard drive, or the secondary bay's connector doesn't work as well as it should. All I have to do now is to put the HDD in the secondary bay and pray that it works.

 

Another edit: It looks like it's possible that the connector for the second hard drive bay is defective, seeing as I put the other hard drive there, and the speed isn't constant when it copies.

Edited March 15, 201214 yr by Sbrideau

Could be to do with what the connectors are, I vaguely recall something about SSD only working properly with SATA 2 or 3 connectors not plain old SATA ones. And I do know some boards use a better SATA for some connections than others. Like my old desktop had 4 Sata 3.0 and 6 Sata 2.0 headers and my Mum's chronically slow thing has some mixture of Sata 2 and Sata 1.

Both Sata connectors are Sata 3 in that laptop.

I strongly recommend you follow this guide.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds/0_50

The only thing that would be useful now for me is the steam thing. I have already done most of what's in this guide, even without following a guide :P.