User manual CORSAIR F120 OPTIMIZATION

[. . . ] Therefore, it's wise to optimize the SSD space that you have when using an SSD as your boot drive. There are a few simple things you can do to get the most performance out of any SSD. Outlined in this guide are the steps we took to achieve maximum results without impacting performance while also saving on disk space. [. . . ] Additionally some applications are written to utilize the page file and may refuse to work correctly without one being present. Here are the steps we followed in Windows 7 to change the page file settings: 1. Click on the Start button then right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties". In the left pane, click "Advanced" then click on "Settings" under "Performance". How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive 2b Change your Page File Settings The steps continued: 3. Select the "Advanced" tab and click on "Change" in the "Virtual Memory" section. Ignore any warnings, we're simply relocating the pagefile. With so much system memory in today's computers you might think that you could get away just turning off your page file. However, we have experimented with various page file settings and found that you get better performance by relocating the page file to a storage drive and believe this option is the best solution. In our testing the performance difference using this solution was barely measureable. How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive 2c Change your Page File Settings The steps continued: 6. 8. Select your secondary drive and click on "System managed size". Reboot your computer and confirm that everything is where it should be. The pagefile. sys is a system file so you won't be able to see it till you've changed your file view properties. The nature of the page file means that your OS is going to be constantly writing to it and while we don't need to worry about fragmentation on an SSD like we would on a traditional hard drive we do need to take into consideration the impact constant writes to the page file will have on the lifespan of your SSD. Feel free to experiment with different settings; what works best on your system might be different, and you can always go back to an earlier setting. How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive 3a Turn off Indexing Indexing is a trick Windows uses to speed up the search for information on your hard drive. This helps on rotating media (HDD's) but doesn't provide any benefit on an SSD, and only increases CPU overhead. Indexing can be disabled in Windows Services. How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive 3b 1. 3. Turn off Indexing Here are the steps we followed to turn it off: Click on the "Start" button and type "services" into the search field then click on the "Services" program in the results field. (tip: sort by name) Change "Startup type" to "Disabled" and click on "Stop" to turn off the service currently running. How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive 4a Modify Windows System Restore While you could turn this function off entirely we feel that it's worth keeping around. [. . . ] Today's games usually run 5GB or more (Starcraft II takes 10. 5GB!). So you're not going to be able to install many games on your boot drive at the same time if you are using a smaller SSD such as the F40 used here. Our Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit installation after using this guide takes up 10. 4GB. And once you've installed Outlook 2010 (all files and programs run from disk) your total installation is 13. 2GB. [. . . ]