How SSDs work and what you can do to make yours last longer

Omidz 10 said:

Three months ago I replaced the 1Tb HDD in my laptop with a 240Gb Kingston HyperX savage SSD by clonning via the macrium reflect. Since I have read this article before, so I turned off some services, pagefile and also hibernation. In the case of hibernation there is no need of it when using ssd since the startup is fast enough. And for the pagefile, by turning it off I could free up about 8Gb on my SSD and it is important for me because I have some heavy softwares and I need some space on my storage. I have no problem at all with this configuration except one thing. I couldn't play the free forza motor sport 6 on windows 10 because of low memory and I think that if I had pagefile on then maybe I could play the game because I have the minimum hardware required to run the game.

Your reasons for disabling pagefile and hibernation have nothing to do with the original post which is about wear and tear on an SSD. Your reasons are simply that your SSD is not big enough for your needs.

One thing one might want to do, if you have re-imaged from a HDD to SSD, or cloned, is check if your partitions are properly aligned:

1. Hit the Windows key or icon.
2. Type System Information
3. Go to Components > Storage > Disks.
4. 
5. Look for your drive and find the "Partition Starting Offset". If this number is divisible by 4096 (that is, if dividing it by 4096 reveals a whole number and not a decimal), your partition is correctly aligned.
6. 

doorules said:

This guy should find something to write about where he has some actual knowledge. It's like he just came out of a time warp from 10 years ago, lol.

The one thing on ALL SSD tweak articles that I always find missing is:
Backup your files(to an offline disk)!
Which should be done anyhow...
Regardless of what type of disk you use.

Cliff S said:

One thing one might want to do, if you have re-imaged from a HDD to SSD, or cloned, is check if your partitions are properly aligned:

1. Hit the Windows key or icon.
2. Type System Information
3. Go to Components > Storage > Disks.
4. 
5. Look for your drive and find the "Partition Starting Offset". If this number is divisible by 4096 (that is, if dividing it by 4096 reveals a whole number and not a decimal), your partition is correctly aligned.
6. 

Why make it so complicated?

What do you do if you find it is not aligned?

Simply use Minitool Partition Wizard Free (everbody should have this great tool). Select Disk, Align All Partitions.

It will almost certainly say all partitions are aligned - it is donkey's years since software did not do this automatically. If not aligned, it then aligns it for you.

cereberus said:

Why make it so complicated?

What do you do if you find it is not aligned?

Simply use Minitool Partition Wizard Free (everbody should have this great tool). Select Disk, Align All Partitions.

It will almost certainly say all partitions are aligned - it is donkey's years since software did not do this automatically. If not aligned, it then aligns it for you.

I don't use 3rd party tools for simple things that I can do in Windows:)

hi

Cliff S said:

I don't use 3rd party tools for simple things that I can do in Windows:)

So how do you align them if you find it is not aligned?
Last time I did that, from memory, it was a real PITA.

Personally, I find minitool partition wizard the second most useful tool after Macrium Reflect.