do *not* maintain your SSD Intel X25-M drive and it will last longer! SSD and Vista Best Practices
by naisan on Oct.28, 2008, under Uncategorized
Funny thing that when we change an element in a system most people don’t think through the other changes necessary. Funnier that I am guilty of that!
Few days ago I received my Intel x25-M SSD 80GB hard drive from the hardware magicians at SoftMart! I then copied the Vista OS over from my old conventional drive with Acronis MigrateEasy – which worked just as the title suggested. MigrateEasy allowed me to connect my old drive via a USB controller, copy the disk image of the Vista OS to a hard drive on the desktop, then rewrite it back to the new solid state hard drive again with the SSD connected via USB. There were no hitches, and upon insertion in my Lenovo x60, Vista booted just fine.
However, there were some strange crashes and issues. So I started to look around for best practices, and found little. CAVEAT: I don’t *know* that this stuff is the right way to go – it’s just what I am doing now 
 But here’s what I am using as my working best practices, gleaned mostly from common sense and some web forums and reviews:
- Turn off defragmentation in Vista: the random access time on these drives is very fast, and I am under the impression that the Intel drive is allocating blocks of data into the areas it deems best for performance – no sense having an algorithim optimized for a conventional hard disk try to move things around.
- Turn off Active Protection from lenovo: After turning this feature, which stops the hard drive when it detects g-forces like being dropped, I noted much less machine freezing. I don’t think solid state memory is to shock-sensitive enough to warrant this
- Turn off the disk paging file if you have enough RAM: paging to an SSD is pretty fast, but some folks are opining that it keeps writing and writing and that SSD’s are more sensitive to multiple writes. I rarely run out of RAM, so am going to try this.
- Turn off superfetch: again, no need to cache the info on the drive when apps start very fast anyways.
If I see any adverse effects on my machine I will post back. Let me know if you’ve ot some additional ideas.
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