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Microsoft have done a lot of work on win7 to tune it for SSDs, so much so that in terms of the OS itself, there’s little to no need to tweak anything. However if you’re considering a purchase, there are some things you ought to know, some things to consider, and some things you can and can’t do with SSDs, which is what we cover off in this article, along with providing some good advice on maintaining your solid state drives in peak performance.
In summary, as far as the OS is concerned, there is little to nothing that needs be done for a single SSD, but the same can’t be said for your applications or for SSDs configured in a RAID set. While the OS is optimised for SSDs, applications aren’t, and with very few exceptions, RAID controllers don’t support TRIM, which marks blocks that can be erased in the background by the SSD.
If you’re looking for step-by-step instructions, forget it. If you can’t understand the high-level advice in the article sufficiently to work out what steps you must take for yourself then you shouldn’t be reading this page at all.
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