senalphsarci Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 I just got a Lenovo T400 with a 128 GB Samsung MLC SSD. Its pretty fast, the results from HD Tune are attached. I'm just cursious is there are any tweaks to do to Vista that can speed up the SSD performance. I haven't really been able to find much and I've look around for a while. Specifically I was wondering about "Write Caching" in Vista. Should I disable it? Enable the "advanced performance sub-option? Or just leave it default, enabled. Anyone have any ideas or any success speeding up SSD's in Vista? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbba Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 you need your write cache more than ever with an ssd as writes are pretty slow with them. the main perf tweak is to disable defraging your ssd as it doesn't help performance in anyway and can contribute to the early death of an ssd. there are some article's on the ocz ssd forum that talk about using windows steady state as a means of caching writes further but it's a bit ott imop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senalphsarci Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 So enabling write caching would produce real world improvements but not necessarily show up when benchmarking with programs like HDtune? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senalphsarci Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 You know, now that I think about it, write caching doesn't even make sense with a SSD. When Windows uses write caching a a regular HDD, the cache memory used is the cache found on the hard disk itself (usually 8-32mb). SSD's don't have cache, infact thats the whole point of a SSD; the whole drive is like one giant permanent cache. My thinking leads me to believe write caching should be turn off when using a SSD. Anyone have any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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