Force 3 GT Trim & Pagefile

[vandey]

Is it wise to disable the trim settings on these SSD's?

 

I've heard something about disabling Trim and the Pagefile when running SSD's to increase their life. I know pagefile is used when the system doesn't have enough memory it writes things to the hard drive instead. I have enough memory where I can disable the pagefile without any issues. But my main question is about trim, will disabling/enabling trim effect the durability and lifespan of the drive?

 

I'm still a little new to SSD's so any information would be helpful!

[canthearu]

First of all, there is NO need to worry about the lifetime of your SSD. A 128gig SSD can tolerate somewhere between 200 and 400 Terabytes of writes before reaching end of life.

 

That represents more than 50 years of typical desktop use.

 

And further to that, the drive itself may last an additional 2 or 3 times the rated lifetime. You are more likely to be eaten by a GRUE than to unwittingly wear out a SSD.

 

What you really need to do:

 

Use windows 7 or 8, run the Windows Experience Index Benchmark to ensure your computer recognizes it has a SSD. Do not run Vista or XP as they are not designed to work with SSDs, and do silly things like regularly defragment your SSDs.

 

If you want to recover more space, you can choose to:

a) Reduce the pagefile size to 1GB. But leave it on the SSD. This ensures you have a buffer if you do start to use too much memory, and programs that blindly look for a pagefile don't get upset.

b) Disable hibernate and remove the hibernate file. Run powercfg -h off from an administrator command prompt.

 

From there, you should not need to do anything else for high performance and long SSD life.

[vandey]

I have disabled both the TRIM and PageFile, I have more than enough memory and should never run out so I'm not to concerned there. I have also turned off windows indexing, this drive is mainly used for programs and games, I do not store any documents or anything on these drives, that is why I am turning all of this stuff off. If I notice system slow downs I may turn the pagefile back on, but in all honesty I am only using about 35% of my ram at any time even when playing games so again I'm not to concerned about PageFile.

[canthearu]

I have disabled both the TRIM and PageFile, I have more than enough memory and should never run out so I'm not to concerned there. I have also turned off windows indexing, this drive is mainly used for programs and games, I do not store any documents or anything on these drives, that is why I am turning all of this stuff off. If I notice system slow downs I may turn the pagefile back on, but in all honesty I am only using about 35% of my ram at any time even when playing games so again I'm not to concerned about PageFile.

 

Why have you disabled TRIM? I said to leave it enabled.

 

That is unwise as that is what the drive uses to determine what areas of the SSD are no longer in use by the operating system and can be reused. Without TRIM enabled, performance of the SSD will degrade over time.

 

As for indexing, it doesn't hurt at all to leave it on, but that is up to you, if you don't need the functionality, then you can turn it off.

 

For pagefile, what I suggest has been learned from experience with a wide range of software. You won't notice slowdowns, but you may notice windows killing programs randomly on you or the odd program refusing to install/run without a minimal pagefile.

 

But it is your computer, so you are free to do what you want. But I'm not sure why you even ask the question if you were not going to take the responses seriously.

[vandey]

Sorry meant to say I have trim enabled but have disabled pagefile and indexing, overall pagefile is useless if you have enough memory as it is the substitute for when your system runs out of memory, as I stated above I have more than enough memory. I could also honestly care less about the indexing as only system files are being stored on my SSD and the speeds is such that it really is unnecessary.

 

I asked these questions to get input from people who have had experience with these settings, mainly wondering what the benefit is.

[canthearu]

Oh cool then :)

 

I was half ready to pull my hair out when you said you had disabled TRIM.