Corsair CSSD-F360GBGS-BK, CSSD-F240GBGS-BK, CSSD-F180GBGS-BK User manual
Performance Hardware
User’s Guide
H o w T o O p t i m i z e
y o u r S S D B o o t D r i v e
A guide showing a few simple steps to optimize the performance of your SSD
boot drive.
Version 1.0 July, 2010
How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive
Introduction
SSDs are the fastest drives available for desktop and portable computers.
However, modern operating systems, programs, and games can quickly
take up a huge amount of storage. One very popular set-up these days is
for users to use an SSD for their boot drive and use standard hard drives for
data storage space. 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. Our guide was assembled using the Force series F40 SSD and the
information here applies to all of the SSDs in our lineup.
How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive
Disable Hibernation
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If your system isn’t a laptop or netbook then you probably won’t ever need
hibernation. While hibernation is turned on your system keeps a file on the
root of your drive where it saves information about what you’re currently
doing on your computer. Disabling hibernation is easily accomplished with a
simple command line and will save you several GB’s of space. On our F40
we found that disabling Hibernation saved us roughly 8GB of space (20%)!
Here are the steps we followed:
1. Click on the “Start” button (Window’s logo icon in the lower left
hand corner of your desktop) and type “command” into the
search field.
2. Right click on “Command Prompt” at the top of your search
results and choose “Run as Administrator”.
3. In the DOS window enter the following command: powercfg –h
off
4. Close the command window.
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How to Optimize your SSD Boot Drive
Change your Page File Settings
The primary purpose of your page file is to act as virtual memory. Windows
7 primarily uses it for a couple of things; first off it acts as a staging area for
information the OS thinks it might need next (think cache) and as a backup
in case you don’t have enough physical memory (DRAM). 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”.
2. In the left pane, click “Advanced” then click on “Settings” under
“Performance”.
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