SSD Optimization on Windows 10

[drjackool]

Hi
I have Samsung NVMe 960 EVO 250GB+2 HDDs, and Windows 10 OS, I think for optimazation and reducing write operations if I move page file to another drive (HDD) also disabling indexing service for SSD can do it. Is it correct?

I know indexing service is for fast search but I do not know it is only for user search from search text box in the Explorer window or It is also used for applications file access!? if only for user search i do not need it!

Please guide me.

Thanks

 

[jaslion]

Hi
I have Samsung NVMe 960 EVO 250GB+2 HDDs, and Windows 10 OS, I think for optimazation and reducing write operations if I move page file to another drive (HDD) also disabling indexing service for SSD can do it. Is it correct?

I know indexing service is for fast search but I do not know it is only for user search from search text box in the Explorer window or It is also used for applications file access!? if only for user search i do not need it!

Please guide me.

Thanks

You don't need to worry about any of this really. You will not notice and speeds increase/decrease just broken/slow windows features.

 

[Solandri]

I have Samsung NVMe 960 EVO 250GB+2 HDDs, and Windows 10 OS, I think for optimazation and reducing write operations if I move page file to another drive (HDD) also disabling indexing service for SSD can do it. Is it correct?

This is usually a bad idea. Most users typically write about 1 GB of data to their drives every day. At that rate, modern SSDs will last for decades. Wearing out a SSD's write cycles was a concern back when SSDs were 16-32 GB. But today, unless you write an unusually large amount of data, it's pretty much a non-issue with modern drives.

Also, moving the pagefile from the SSD to a HDD is a bad idea. If you're like most SSD+HDD configurations, most of the I/O is done on the SSD. That will give the HDD enough idle time that it will spin down. Well, Windows considers the pagefile to be the same as RAM. When it tries to access the pagefile, it will freeze everything - even the mouse cursor - until it's able to access it. If the HDD with your pagefile has spun down, that means you'll have to wait through a 1 second freeze as Windows waits for the disk to spin up to speed so it can read the pagefile.

If you're really having an issue with to much data being written to the pagefile, the correct solution is to add more RAM to the system.

 

[USAFRet]

Reducing write operation to the SSD is a long gone concept.
Not been needed for years. Truly, not something you need to worrk about.

My main system, indeed all the main systems in my house, are SSD only. Oh my...wherever shall I put the pagefile???
Since my first SSD in 2012 (Kingston 120GB), the page file has always been on the boot drive, an SSD.
That drive is still in use, currently as a cache/scratch space for CAD/video/photo applications.

A typical SSD has a warranty TBW level of 75 or 150TBW.
3 of my main systems, 8 SSD's split between them (5, 2, and 1)...does not yet rise to 45TBW total.
The drives are out of warranty due to time long before the TBW limit would be reached.
And repurposed due to size before that as well. That 120GB drive is too small for the OS.
5-6-7 years from now, your 960 EVO will be the same....still running just fine, but repurposed simply due to size.


And lest you think these systems are not used a lot...in my main system, just in photography use...about 6,000 pictures from my Fuji X-T1 (12,000 individual files), just in 2017.

 

[razor512]

The page file under windows 10 (even as far back as windows 7) if pretty friendly on SSDs.

Unless you have a weird config like only having 4GB of RAM, the page file will do very little writing over the course of a day. It still gets used regardless of how much RAM you have but the data that gets put there, is data that does not need to be altered much after an initial load.

The bulk of your writes will come from the applications you run and the data you work with. for example, I work with a lot of video, I can easily put 40+TB of writes onto an SSD per year.

If you do a lot of writes, a TLC NAND SSD is a bad deal since they are only a little cheaper while having a tiny fraction of the write endurance.