SSD Software

Using an SSD? You will probably benefit from these two little programs.

Reminder for installing:
1. Update the firmware of the SSD because it will likely trash any data.
2. Set BIOS for AHCI before installing Windows. You can easily change this in registry later if you forget.

SSD Life grab the free portable version. It is so encouraging to see that you SSD is still at 100%. How accurate is this? Who knows but it makes me feel better.

Tweak-SSD install and do all the tweaks. Saves doing them manually. All the little switches should be green. If you have a small amount of ram you may not want to turn off the page file. You should get more ram and turn it off. (Yes, turning off page file only helps things to load faster and isn't that what we want?)

You can go through numerous blog posts and lists of tweaks and learn all about what helps and what does not, or you can just run Tweak-SSD and forget about it.

While I'm at it, let me say I am an SSD convert. Any system I use on a regular basis has and will have an SSD. They are that good and that fast. Expensive you say? Not when you consider they can extend the life of that older system by making it feel like a cutting edge new one. I've even used the "I wouldn't touch one" model and it performed well.

I still use them as a boot drive and redirect the user files to a standard hard drive but this may not be necessary. My SSD's will probably outlive me.