From what i read in google its not advised or well you shouldn't defrag an SSD. So i am wondering is there another way to keep your system running smooth as possible on an SSD? Besides the malware/virus scans.
From what i read in google its not advised or well you shouldn't defrag an SSD. So i am wondering is there another way to keep your system running smooth as possible on an SSD? Besides the malware/virus scans.
Don't defrag.
Leave like 5-10% of free space on the SSD.
Simple as that.
I've still got a very well-working Crucial m4 128GB SSD from 2011. I honestly can't believe that was 7 years ago, but it was and it still works great.
There's really nothing you need to do to 'keep it running smooth' besides making sure it has a decent amount of space (10-15%). TRIM (the SSD version of Defrag, effectively) runs automatically.
Gaming: Dual Intel Pentium III Coppermine @ 1400mhz + Blue Orb | Asus CUV266-D | GeForce 2 Ti + ZF700-Cu | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 | Whistler Build 2267
Media: Dual Intel Drake Xeon @ 600mhz | Intel Marlinspike MS440GX | Matrox G440 | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 @ 166mhz | Windows 2000 Pro
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WANKERSHIM | Did you mean: Fhqwhgads"Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists." -Mab
Gaming: Dual Intel Pentium III Coppermine @ 1400mhz + Blue Orb | Asus CUV266-D | GeForce 2 Ti + ZF700-Cu | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 | Whistler Build 2267
Media: Dual Intel Drake Xeon @ 600mhz | Intel Marlinspike MS440GX | Matrox G440 | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 @ 166mhz | Windows 2000 Pro
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WANKERSHIM | Did you mean: Fhqwhgads"Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists." -Mab
Gaming: Dual Intel Pentium III Coppermine @ 1400mhz + Blue Orb | Asus CUV266-D | GeForce 2 Ti + ZF700-Cu | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 | Whistler Build 2267
Media: Dual Intel Drake Xeon @ 600mhz | Intel Marlinspike MS440GX | Matrox G440 | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 @ 166mhz | Windows 2000 Pro
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WANKERSHIM | Did you mean: Fhqwhgads"Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists." -Mab
If you leave the option on Windows will do a SSD version of defragging called TRIM it will do it once a month.. It does this to extend the life of the drive (yes that may sound dumb) but SSD's do fragment and letting Windows do its TRIM once a month is all that is needed..
Looks like its enabled for me but i was wondering does it do the TRIM thing for more than one SSD on the pc?
Gaming: Dual Intel Pentium III Coppermine @ 1400mhz + Blue Orb | Asus CUV266-D | GeForce 2 Ti + ZF700-Cu | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 | Whistler Build 2267
Media: Dual Intel Drake Xeon @ 600mhz | Intel Marlinspike MS440GX | Matrox G440 | 1024mb Crucial PC-133 @ 166mhz | Windows 2000 Pro
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WANKERSHIM | Did you mean: Fhqwhgads"Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists." -Mab
I have an old 30Gb that is still kicking. They seem to be more reliable than hard drives. I've had one to fail out of the last 15, most of them were replaced because they were too small.
I have a SATA port that I can plug in an external HDD into on my system. Is that a bad thing? Why would it be slower than a SATA port inside the device?
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Would a 500GB SSD drive for 30-50 more be better than a second HDD?
Pretty sure he was referring to the xbox, and he's entirely correct. For you, no, external sata is fine for an ssd, but try to ensure it's as fast as the sata speed of the drive. This isn't a big deal though, the differences are pretty minimal.
EDIT: unless the new xbox has an external sata port? I admit I haven't paid attention to the newer specs on them.
what are you talking about? My external drive has about 20 seconds faster load time than the internal drive. I have my entire library of about 3tb worth of games installed onto a 7200 4tb hdd and never have to worry about space. Have fun managing game files cus u cant fit shit on 500gb
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no cus 500gb is super fast to fill. 7200 rpm drives arnt that much slower than an ssd when loading xbox games. go google drive speed comparisons.
lol forgot we're talking Xbox. That's entirely my bad, carry on! Sorry, @Zeta333