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SSD maintenance

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carlmart

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This is my first SSD and I don't quite know what to do maintenance wise.

On regular HDDs, you have to Cleanup the disk, using Properties, to clean things you have deleted.

But I read you don't have to do that on an SSD, or it may cause longevity problems.

What should I do?
 
Nothing.

If TRIM is enabled/working, then keeping some free space will help keep speeds good, but otherwise just use it.
 
What about firmware upgrades? Is that something you all regularly do, or only on an "as needed" basis?
 
You only upgrade the firmware if something is not working properly and only as a last resort.

Now that you bring it up, I never upgraded the firmware on a HD. I don't understand why SSDs would need them, but over time I expect the need will vanish.
 
I did upgrade the firmware. I think that should be done.

TRIM can be accessed how? I don't know if it's enable or not.
 
You should give it offerings of incense every now and then to prolong it's life.
 
Kongar said:
What about firmware upgrades? Is that something you all regularly do, or only on an "as needed" basis?
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I wouldnt at all unless you have an issue. 90% of the time if the SSD is new, it will not need a firmware update.
 
When you first get the SSD, check if there's a firmware update and apply it. Even the big three (Crucial, Intel, Samsung) make a mistake every now and then. The time to apply it is right at the start, so if it goes wrong, you lost no data and you can just RMA it.

TRIM needs the OS and motherboard BIOS to support it. If you install Win7 or later onto the SSD, TRIM will just work automatically. If you clone an OS that was installed on a HDD onto the SSD, you may need to do something to enable it, and other SSD-centric things as well.

To check whether TRIM is enabled and working on Win7, do this (might be different in Win8):

Open the Start Menu, type CMD
Right click the icon and Run as Administrator
Type fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

If you are running multiple SSDs in RAID, only certain motherboards will support TRIM in RAID, but you are not talking about doing that.
 
Use this utility to check if TRIM is working: http://files.thecybershadow.net/trimcheck/

It also helps verify if it's working in RAID.



Other than that and the firmware updates, there isn't much else. I constantly use CCleaner to help minimize wasted space and turn my page file down to ~400MB.
 
Yeah as mentioned I would always install the new firmware on a SSD at least before you install it proper.

I've installed quite a few now and the firmware update can mean the difference between the motherboard detecting it and not detecting it (quite an issue really). Plus if you read the change list it can often read like this -

Changes - Improved compatibility - Improved/Working TRIM - Increased Read performance

So you would want that. Often drives ship with the first issue of firmware which can be buggy. Corsair and a few other firms have been caught out with that. But fixed issues with updates.

The only other thing I do is leave a few extra GB unpartitioned.
 
Can heat cause any problem to a SSD? If they are near a hot VGA, like a 4870x2 for example.
 
Can heat cause any problem to a SSD? If they are near a hot VGA, like a 4870x2 for example.
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Most likely not. Although can't you velcro them to a different place in your case?
 
drescherjm said:
Most likely not. Although can't you velcro them to a different place in your case?
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Sure.

Also recently I switched the SSD to my notebook. I'm looking for a new one with bigger capacity for the desktop. I was just wondering about the heat issue...
 
Thanks for all the feedback.

Yes, I updated the firmware and then did all the rest: format, install, etc.

Heat is not an issue, or at least mine, a Crucial 256Gb, is cool all the time. It shouldn't be a problem on a notebook.
 
evilsofa said:
To check whether TRIM is enabled and working on Win7, do this (might be different in Win8):

Open the Start Menu, type CMD
Right click the icon and Run as Administrator
Type fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

If you are running multiple SSDs in RAID, only certain motherboards will support TRIM in RAID, but you are not talking about doing that.
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OK, TRIM was not enabled. Now it is. Thanks.
 
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