Some software companies claim that their tools can “optimize. A solid-state drive. If you’re using an older operating system like Windows Vista. Guide to optimizing a Solid State Drive for maximum performance when used with a Windows operating system. How to Optimize SSD. Cours Dessin Topographique Pdf. (but not Vista) for a SSD is to.
It might take some years from now on before most new computers will be shipped with Solid State Drives instead of conventional platter driven hard drives but the change is inevitable. SSDs of the current generation already achieve top read speeds but usually lack behind in write speeds. There are however a few tips on how to optimize Windows for Solid State Drive usage. All center around the idea of moving write intensive tasks to another hard drive or disabling them completely. This is even more important if a Windows operating system has been installed on the Solid State Drive. (It is basically the same deal for Linux users who should think about moving all write intensive tasks to other drives) Three different types of tweaks can be applied.
Tweaks that are applied directly to the hardware device in Windows, tweaks to the Windows operating system and tweaks to applications. Hardware Tweaks: • PIO Mode Make sure the SSD is not running in PIO mode. To verify that go into the Device Manager, open IDE ATA / ATAPI controllers and double-click all Primary and Secondary IDE Channels. Verify that there are no signs of PIO Mode under the Current Transfer Mode entry in Advanced Settings.
It should list Ultra DMA Mode 5 there. • Enable Write Caching Click on Disk Drives in the Device Manager and locate the Solid State Drive. Double-click it and open the Policies tab on top. Select Optimize for performance and enable 'Enable write caching on the disk'.
There is no need for the quick removal option as the SSD will never be removed from the computer (like any other hard drive). Windows Tweaks: • Moving the Pagefile Moving the pagefile to another hard drive has a positive effect on the performance of SSD drives. Go back to System Properties. Click on the Advanced Tabm there on Settings under the Performance entry. Again on Advanced in the new window and finally on the Change button under the Virtual Memory entry. The Virtual Memory window opens and it will display all drive partitions on top and the size of their paging files. Select the Solid State Drive and check the 'No Paging File' entry.
Click the Set button to set the new preferences. Now select another hard drive and assign the pagefile to this drive.
• Move the temp files The Advanced tab under System Properties has a button entitled Environment Variables. Click it and locate the temp and tmp variables for the user and the system. Change the path to another hard drive if they are located on the Solid State Drive. • Disable the Indexing Service on the drive Right-click on the drive letter of the SSD and select Properties from the menu. Locate the Allow Indexing Service to index the disk for fast file searching line and make sure it is disabled. Application Tweaks: Most application tweaks center around the idea of moving temporary files to another hard drive.
Take the cache of web browsers or temp files during video production for example. Moving them to another hard drive will have an impact on the system's performance. Do you know of additional tweaks that might improve system performance of SSD drives? “Why mention PIO mode?
Cpitguider.exe Goclever. Honestly, who uses IDE SSDs? Do they even exist?” Actually all SATA drives are still listed under this controller type. I do not know the exact specifics, but all drives basically emulate this interface to Windows. In fact, the full-name in Windows 7 for the grouping in Device Manager is “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.” (Note the inclusion of “ATA/ATAPI” controllers.) But most importantly, go to this category in Device Manager and check every node under it – you will see that the SATA controllers still have DMA/PIO options, command queuing, etcI fix many computers and I have often found that people forget this simply because they do not check, thinking it does not apply. In fact, PIO mode is *terrible* Unfortunately windows “falls back” to this transfer mode if there is a driver problem etc and will not automatically switch back to DMA once the driver problems are solved. Thus this is a very important thing to mentionfor *any* HardDrive.