The biggest mistake you can make when you set up an SSD is treating the disk as a traditional hard drive. Anyone who does everything “as always” – new disk, reinstalling Windows from DVD – will most likely determine that the SSD is running in IDE mode, the Trim command has not been activated, and the alignment, memory size division has failed >
To avoid rough setup errors
And this is associated with considerable performance losses. First of all you should take the time, therefore, to determine exactly which hardware is in the PC housing - especially the mainboard is of interest here. Because a modern SSD unfolds its full power only at a SATA-III connection. So make sure you have a port on the board.
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Installing the SSD hard drive - it's as simple as that
Important: Be sure to enable AHCI in BIOS
If not, a SATA-III plug-in card can be retrofitted via a free PCIe slot. In our labs, however, we have found that retrofitted SATA-III plug-in cards limit data transfer performance, while controllers integrated in the mainboard deliver the full performance. Maybe it's time to update the motherboard? Then one with SATA-III onboard controller would be advantageous.
Turn off unnecessary services
The easy way to get a new Windows 7 with properly formatted SSD is via a second, running Windows 7 or Vista with free SATA port, which formats the SSD. You can do this elegantly through the management console (Run> mmc, Add Disk Management as a Snap-In), or in Windows Explorer (shortcuts Ctrl + E), if the SSD is detected
The disk should now be formatted without a bit-blocker partition with correct alignment. If you want to be safe, you can hit the SSD benchmark AS SSD. In addition to the performance values, a correct alignment in green is to be found in the upper left-hand corner. With 1024 OK.
On the first boot with the new SSD in the system, you must first check into the BIOS to check the AHCI mode, before the Windows installation. All modern SATA HDD disks know the AHCI protocol and get along well. It also activates useful features such as Native Command Queuing, which makes the system faster. For SSDs, AHCI is vital.
Only with this protocol is the SSD recognized as such by Windows 7. If AHCI has not been activated before the installation, the SSD is considered an ordinary magnetic disk, the important Trim command for data corruption is not supported and the full performance of the SSD is not achieved Code>
Anyone who has forgotten to activate AHCI before the installation can do so later. The downside is that services are active that would otherwise have been shut down, such as defragmentation.
After reinstalling Windows 7, you can use the CrystalDiskInfo tool to check whether the SSD is actually accessed via the AHCI protocol and the Trim command has been activated.
Doing the SSD is worth it. The storage medium is not only faster and more resistant to performance dips. Because of the special memory structure, the lifetime of the SSD is also maximized by limiting Windows in its "write-rage". In the case of inexpensive multi-level cell SSDs, the life-cycle is reached after approximately 10,000 writing cycles. In short, the less you describe the SSD, the longer it lives.
When Windows 7 was developed, one was expected with much, only with SSDs not. The operating system is optimized for the highest possible speed, comfort and safety. This is why very often data is written to the hard disk in the background. These "services" should be switched off wherever possible. But even if Windows detects an SSD, many services remain active, which must be stopped manually. Windows does not become lansamer.
Since Windows Vista, the restore function has been linked to a convenient file backup. In the so-called shadow copy, the system saves older file versions when the service is active - and this is always when you do not shut it down. In itself this service running in the background is a fine thing. There is only one problem: auto-recovery permanently writes data to disk.
Disable recovery
This is exactly what we do not want with SSDs. And unfortunately you can not move the location of this data to another drive, as is possible with the server variant of the operating system. Recovery data can only be stored on the same drive for which it is collected. Unfortunately, system recovery by recovery point will only work completely if you have enabled it for the system disk.
The quickest way to get to the System Restore settings is through the keyboard shortcut> Window Key + Pause> Computer Protection. Select the SSD, and then click Configure ....
Important: Stop System Restore
In the dialog box, activate the third radio button Disable Computer Protection.
Windows 7 can no longer create recovery points after disabling the restore function for the system partition. For other hard disks in the system, the Restore only previous file versions function is still available. This means that you can export saved files from the shadow copy by right-clicking.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 have an automatic defragmentation of the hard disks, which is timed. The defragmenter turns off Windows 7 as opposed to Vista if the SSD is correctly recognized for it. Please check if the service has been shut down.
Turn off the querying
Disable Windows Search
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Important: For SSD disks, defragmentation is unnecessary, and the data is constantly shortened, only the lifetime of the disk is reduced.
You can quickly get to the defragmenter via> Start> Search field input: Defragmentation. In the dialog box, select> Schedule Schedule ...> Select Disk ....
If Windows 7 has correctly recognized the SSD, it will not be listed in this list. If the flash memory is still displayed in the list, you probably forgot to enable AHCI before reinstalling. You can either turn off the defragmenter completely by clearing the Select all disk checkmark, or you can set the scheduler to defragment the hard disk regularly.
Normal HDDs run faster when they are defragmented, so we recommend the combination solution: leave SSDs at rest, optimize HDDs and clean up. A complete shutdown of the Windows defragmenter is only useful if you are using an external defragmenter.
You can switch the Index service from
> Start> Search Field Entry: Services> Right-click Windows Search> Properties> Startup Type: Select Disabled
In the properties of the hard disk, the tick for the indexing of the SSD should be deselected. Check this and correct it if necessary. Windows may ask permission to make changes to file attributes. Select the lower option to include the sub-nodes as well. This unselect will only work if you are an administrator.
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