It´s not. You cannot make generalizations based on a few cases of anecdotal evidence. UEFI in native mode has the potential to be fast in boot. Whether this potential is realized or not in practice, depends on many factors. Anyway, UEFI is the current and future standard, and it will benefit from future advances in security and other factors. You should always go UEFI in native mode, unless there is a very specific reason to do otherwise. Also, if you install in UEFI in legacy mode, to change to UEFI in native mode in the future may require another installation.
The Lifehacker blog referenced in post #10 suggests that to maximize SSD life it's a good idea for laptop users to disable paging and hibernation. As that blog is rather old I'm wondering if it's still a good idea to do that on a laptop with SSD. 8GB RAM, running Win10 x64 ?
I don't think there's any need, considering it has been shown that SSDs have such a long lifetime, the extra writes won't matter.
I just got a ssd on my win7 machine and installed RamDisk like i had on my old spinner hd for Chrome temp files. It seems a lot faster now and should reduce the ssd writes that are not good for it.
I use RamDisk the same way + use it as Sandboxie container location. Personally I don't see difference in speed but I still prefer it over SSD for storing such data.
Wow I have not used Ramdisk in years. I am sure it is much improved by now. Back in the win 95 or XP days. Can not remember. you guys using the free version? good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcrjpog0g3k
I don't set up my ramdisk like that video shows at all. I don't start ramdisk at all and don't set up a drive letter. I also set mine for unformatted.
Writes don't matter with SSDs, due their very long life. When SSDs were first released there were concerns about the the life, but the reality it is that SSDs last such a long time, that you do not need to worry. I've had my ssd for 20 months now, in that time it has had over 29 terrabytes of data written to it and Hard Disk Sentinel reports its remaining life percentage as 92%.
A few hours ago i read something about trim and weather your ssd had it and if it was enabled in win7 and how to find out. So i typed something to command prompt and it showed a 0, so that meant i had trim going.
I was told that it would be good to run chkdisk on a ssd once in a while because it could find something that the ssd controllers would miss.
Unless you really feel the need to change any settings, it's fine to use your SSD without any tweaks. Windows will not do anything to harm your SSD. Your SSD should last for decades, whether you tweak it or not.
My verbatim only lasted a few years and hdsentinel reported it was fine at 100% through out its time. It got very slow gradually. Using a crucial ssd now
