Your Mama Don’t Dance & Your SSD Don’t Rock & Roll
Martin on gHacks posts these tips to speed up your SSD drive. He’s totally right that SSD drives are going to be in all of our computers in another few years. They are basically working out the kinks now.
For example, Microsoft Research Cambridge team recently published Migrating Server Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs and their conclusion is that for now, SSDs are too expensive to incorporate into a corporate server environment vs. HDDs.
Here are the tips:
Solid State Drives are build into many computer systems these days. They are build into netbooks for example, are offered by web hosts to run in dedicated servers or purchased by tech enthusiasts.…
- Move the temp folders of the operating system to another hard drive.
- Move the pagefile and System Restore locations to another hard drive
- Move the cache of applications to another hard drive, e.g. web browsers, email clients.
- Disable programs that access the hard drive and that are not needed, like Windows Indexing Service
- Upgrade the computer memory of the computer system (only makes sense if sub 4 Gigabybtes on a 32-bit system)
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