More recently, SSDs (Solid State Drives or Solid State Drives) have become popular and positioned themselves as the best hard drives for storing data inside a computer; in this way, they have better latency and speed thanks to the absence of mechanical movement inside them, but based on 3D NAND memory chips, No doubt this will provide better speed for your PC operating system.
Now, in order to make the computer run faster, not only one SDD is enough, you have to optimize it for maximum performance; this can be achieved by the TRIM command, which gives instructions to restore the performance of the unit so that the task can be executed as quickly as possible , which can be eliminated by indicating data that is no longer used, in order to grant optimizations.
How can I configure my SSD for better performance and maximum lifespan?
It’s important to clarify that the lifespan of an SSD doesn’t start to deteriorate after 10 years, it depends on the conditions in which it was found, i.e. not affected by temperature, humidity, drops, etc. As a result, SSDs will have a much longer lifespan than traditional hard drives (HDDs); however, improve your performance It may be critical to its durability.
Enable AHCI in BIOS
Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), a standard in the SATA interface that allowsProgram interacts with storage unit In this case, connect with the SSD to guarantee that the operating system will support all advanced features.
Therefore, it is crucial to configure this feature in your Windows BIOS, for this you must first verify the way you have configured the SATA interface; above, In the system BIOS, In the «Storage Configuration > Configure SATA as > IDE» section. If this is the case, you should exit the operation and start Windows normally to do some settings before switching to AHCI mode.
Next, go to the command prompt in administrator mode, type the command bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimum and hit enter, this command will boot in safe mode when you reboot the machine; when doing so You have to access the BIOS again Same as the previous steps, now if you activate AHCI mode, save the configuration and exit.
When starting Windows in safe mode, you must access the command prompt again and run as administrator, then type the command bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot and hit enter. In this way, you will activate IDE mode in the operating system to optimize it.
Make sure TRIM is working properly
TRIM optimizes the performance of the SSD by cleaning up blocks ready for deletion; this process happens when the computer is idle, so you don’t have to deal with reads and writes.To activate it, you can use the command prompt in administrator mode with Order The fsutil behavior sets disabledeletenotify 0 and hits enter.
Keep defragmentation active
The function of hard disk defragmentation is to rearrange file fragments so that they are closer together for faster access, but for SSDs this function acts as a «reTRIM», Run the TRIM command to make sure it can optimize the drive. To check if it’s working, click Start and type «Optimize Drive».
Configure SSD without indexing
Finally, the Windows Indexing Service does things by indicating where everything is located to increase the speed at which file searches are performed and maintain better performance, but with SSDs this is unnecessary and can run out of life.So what you do is turn off function; To do this, go to Computer and right click on it, select Properties and uncheck «Allow files on this drive to have content indexing in addition to file properties».
How do I activate TRIM from CMD on my Windows 10 computer?
To find out if it’s active, access it by typing CMD into the Windows 10 search bar, when it appears, right-click on it and select the «Run as administrator» option; enter the command inside the interface The fsutil behavior queries DisableDeleteNotify and returns.
Where, if the result is «0», then TRIM is properly enabled on the computer, but if instead, the result is «1», the command is disabled and not running on your SSD; use fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 command to quickly enable it in the same panel.