So I'm going to be installing Win7 on an SSD and I was wondering about four things: Sleeping, Paging, Superfetch, and indexing.
First of all, this link says Win7 on SSDs turns off superfetch and defragging. So I don't have to manually turn off superfetch, correct?
Peopple have been saying not to have a page file on the SSD, is that true? But the link above says that page file reads to writes are 40 to 1 and are usually 4kb which makes an SSD perfect for a pagefile.
I read that I should get rid of my hibernation file, so does that mean sleeping isn't good either for Win7 on an SSD? I hope not, but I was worried about it because I regularly use sleep.
Indexing options, should this be running? I love the start menu search bar for programs, and the search bar in folders for finding files, I don't want to lose that quickness.
I've been reading so much information from people saying to turn things on and turn them off, what's the real answer??
Thank you for any help.
EDIT:
Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm going to leave everything as is, except I want to reduce the page file because I'm probably going to have 8gb to 16gb of ram, so what can I safely reduce the page file to for my SSD? I'm willing to give up crash dumps. So whats a good number, 1gb, 4gb?
First of all, this link says Win7 on SSDs turns off superfetch and defragging. So I don't have to manually turn off superfetch, correct?
Peopple have been saying not to have a page file on the SSD, is that true? But the link above says that page file reads to writes are 40 to 1 and are usually 4kb which makes an SSD perfect for a pagefile.
I read that I should get rid of my hibernation file, so does that mean sleeping isn't good either for Win7 on an SSD? I hope not, but I was worried about it because I regularly use sleep.
Indexing options, should this be running? I love the start menu search bar for programs, and the search bar in folders for finding files, I don't want to lose that quickness.
I've been reading so much information from people saying to turn things on and turn them off, what's the real answer??
Thank you for any help.
EDIT:
Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm going to leave everything as is, except I want to reduce the page file because I'm probably going to have 8gb to 16gb of ram, so what can I safely reduce the page file to for my SSD? I'm willing to give up crash dumps. So whats a good number, 1gb, 4gb?
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