SSD -- Pagefile, Superfetch and System Restore

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Rossi~

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Right, you've probably been through this before but i just want to pop these questions.

Running a 60Gb OCZ Vertex 2E and 9Gb of RAM, should i disable the pagefile to increase the life of the SSD?

Is Superfetch necessary anymore?

Should i turn off System Restore to increase the life of the SSD? Or can i move it to write to a HDD?
 
Rossi~ said:
should i disable the pagefile to increase the life of the SSD?
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No. Given the nature of the page file, the SSD is absolutely the best place for it anyway.

Is Superfetch necessary anymore?
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I don't know that it was ever "necessary", but since something cached in RAM is still faster than being read from an SSD, there should continue to be at least some benefit.

Should i turn off System Restore to increase the life of the SSD? Or can i move it to write to a HDD?
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I think your concern over lifespan issues is a bit overblown. You're not going to "wear out" your SSD from these sorts of normal activities. As far as system restore goes, I don't find the feature to be terribly useful given the system overhead that is associated with it, so I tend to disable it for that reason.
 
it seems to be a widely believed myth that using a SSD the same way as a regular hard drive will cause its lifespan to decrease to weeks/months, or that it otherwise has a low-finite number of writes before it dies. from all the data we have so far, this is untrue. garbage collection aside- writing to a SSD on a regular basis will still get you a lifetime of a several years on average. still longer then a physical hard drive most likely.
 
Thanks guys :) I shall keep them all then. Google has masses of opinions on this so i thought i'd just ask here at home :)
 
dont be afraid to use it! i remember when i got my first 36gig raptor back in the day. that hd only lasted me 2.5 years before i retired it (due to disk space). i dont think i'm gonna get more then 5 years out of my barefoot ssd's since i'm already itching to buy sandforce drives after 1 year to upgrade them.
 
Yeah i had no clue of lifetime of SSD's. I'll replace the drive in a year or two anyway.
 
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