SSD optimizing

Just to optimize your system, disable the following:

Time has changed and older harddisk are no longer needed in workstations. As everybody know, harddisks had pretty good transfer speeds, but seektime was really killing and because of that Microsoft invented a lot of optimization to improve the overall performance on disks with poor seektimes. Furthermore memory modules are now so cheap, that using an old fashion swapfile (pagefile) isnt nessesary anymore, at least if you have more than 8GB of memory.

So what I recommend to do is the following steps:

Descriptions and howto in the end of the page:

• • Disable drive indexing.

  • Disable Prefetch.

  • Disable Superfetch.

  • Disable Defrag.

  • Disable Pagefile

  • Disable System restore

  • Disable Hibernate

  • Disable bootload GUI.

Other ways to find out how to do it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2727880

This video and screenshots should give you an idea of what to expect.

None of them really improve performance in an ssd environment, so they are just a waste of ressources.

I just made my own results with the ATTO test bench.

I have two Corsair Force (sata2) disks, running in raid 0. Its the disk I run my windows installation from. The raid setup use the Intel Sandy Bridge controllers raid ability, and the disks are attached to the two sata 3 ports. In the Intel raidcontroller I configured the blocksize to be 128k.

The computer was not overclocked when I did the test.

How To:

1) Disable Drive indexing

This method effectively stop and disable all search indexing processes, and is the recommended way.

1. Click on Start button, then select Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools, and double click on Services applet. Alternatively, simply type “Services” (without quotes) in Start Search box.

2. If User Account Control asks for permission, click Continue.

3. Locate an service named Windows Search. Right click on Windows Search, and then select Properties on contextual menu.

4. Click on Stop button to stop the indexing service immediately.

5. On the Startup Type dropdown box, select Disabled.

6. Click on OK button.

To re-enable the Windows Search, simply change back the Startup Type.

2-3)Disable Superfetch and Prefetch

Update the EnablePrefetcher & EnableSuperfetch registry key in your run-time image:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Name: EnablePrefetcher

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 0

The EnablePrefetcher key has the following values:

0 = Disabled

1 = Application launch prefetching enabled

2 = Boot prefetching enabled

3 = Application launch and boot enabled

To disable Prefetch, set the value to 0.

4)Disable Defrag

Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Disk Defragmenter -> Startup type: Disabled -> OK

5)Disable Boot GUI

1.Type “msconfig” in Vista Start Menu Search box or in Run dialog box and hit enter.

2.Click “Continue” for the UAC prompt.

3.Switch to “Boot” tab in the opened “System Configuration” window.

4.Under “Boot options” enable the check box named “No GUI boot” and Click “Apply”.

5.Reboot the system to see the change in boot screen.