Just make sure that what ever SSD you get it has TRIM capability. Most will but not all. Very important.
Hey Big_Rich.
Nice one for the post. Had a read of it. Lot of things I had already mentioned here in the post. The other thing in it is the system restore. I personally dont like disabling it. Yes it would solve the read/write situation on SSD and in turn lengthen then life, like I said at the start the more actions the SSD does the lower its life span. In saying that you cant buy an SSD and not use it. So certain things will have to take actions. The system restore is one. I didnt mention it in the post because I dont think personally people should disable it unless they have good back up software or are in the habit of backing up a lot. Problem is with that people simply forget to backup before major computer changes, so the system restore is a good line of defense against incorrect changes.
If you do disable it, I would suggest maybe deleting system restore points by disabling system restore, then re enable it. This will delete all previous restore points. Then create a new restore point. Take ownership of the system volume information folder in C:\
You will need to show hidden files and folders and show system files and folders. Then once you have taken ownership of the System volume information folder go into it and copy the system restore files to another location. Then you can disable system restore and still keep your restore point for future.
Personally I back up all the time. I find Acronis great. Others, think the Win7 backup does the job, personally I dont like it. But there are great back up probs available.
Cheers again for the link. There was some interesting points in it and as it said certain areas with computers is all just simply down to choice. Page file, system restore etc.
System Restore is a hideous resource-hungry monster that causes more problems than it fixes.
Better to store all your e-valuables (music, photos, videos, documents etc) out of harms way on a non-OS HDD, then just format if you manage to mess things up enough to warrant using system restore.
I like to have a good format every 3 months or so as a matter of course anyway
Is that with your SSD... As if it is thats a lot of unneeded actions the drive will taking anyway, so will possibly over lengthy periods degrade the SSD which would pretty much defeat the purpose of this thread. System restore may not be the best in the world but as said before and like Vanthus there, It has saved me many times.
Lots of good advice, but the practice on the pagefile seems a matter of debate. In fact, official MS advice is that the pagefile go on the SSD (e.g., see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx ). Similarly the practice of disabling the pagefile even if you have loads of RAM seems questionable - if you don't need it, it doesn't matter, but if you ever do, writing to a pagefile on an SSD is better than not having the RAM.
as mentioned earlier it’s best to either reduce the size of the page file, move it to another drive or disable it altogether "depending on personal preference and/or available amount of RAM".