How to optimize ssd in windows 10

Optimize SSD in Windows 10. Today most users have a solid state hard drive (SSD) in their computer, we have already spoken several times about the characteristics and advantages of these devices. Today we bring you a simple tutorial to learn how to optimize its operation in our Windows 10 operating system, although it is also perfectly valid for previous versions of Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7.

If you still do not have an SSD in your system, I recommend reading our post SSD vs HDD: Everything you need to know and our guide on the best SSDs of the moment

Guide to optimize SSD in Windows 10

Before starting our guide to optimize SSD in Windows 10 we give you a series of general recommendations so that you can extract all the performance from your SSD:

• First of all, make sure you have the latest version of the firmware on your SSD installed. In most models you can do it from the same software provided by the manufacturer or by downloading it from the official website. Second, you must make sure you have your SSD configured as AHCI in the BIOS of your motherboard, although the SSDs connect to the SATA ports of the motherboard, these can be configured in IDE mode that weighs down its performance.

Once you have verified these two points above you can start our tutorial to optimize SSD in Windows 10 . This will improve the performance of your SSD but, above all, reduce the amount of unnecessary data that is written to it, lengthening its useful life considerably.

Disable hibernation

Hibernation was invented to speed up the startup of the computer, what it does is save the state of our session on the hard disk to be able to start much faster. Something that makes a lot of sense if we use a traditional mechanical hard drive but that in the case of using an SSD loses sense and is even counterproductive since we will use write cycles.

To disable hibernation we just have to go to the " start " menu, search for cmd, open it and execute the following command:

powercfg.exe / h off

Disable Superfetch

Another feature that was devised to improve system performance with a mechanical hard drive. In this case what you do is preload the programs that start faster, again something that has little or no use if you use an SSD. By deactivating Superfetch we will slightly reduce the RAM consumption of our equipment and we will also save some writing cycles in our precious SSD. To deactivate Superfetch we go to the " start " menu and look for " services ", run as administrator and search for Superfetch to stop and deactivate it.

Disable drive indexing

Drive indexing is a feature to speed up the search for files, something very useful in slow HDDs but once again not very useful due to the high speed of SSDs. If we deactivate it, we can save a few write cycles on our SSD to extend its useful life. We just have to go to our hard drive, enter its " properties ", disable indexing and accept.

Disable disk defragmenter

Defragmentation of the disk is of vital importance in HDDs but again it is not very useful in SSDs, in this case it is especially recommended to deactivate it since its operation involves a large amount of data repositioned and rewritten in our SSD, which greatly shortens its useful life. What this procedure does is to group the “fragments” of each file in a continuous way, in this way the head of an HDD can read them much more quickly but in the case of an SSD it does not provide any advantage.

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To disable disk defragmentation we go to the " start " menu and look for the " defragment and optimize drives " tool. Once inside the tool we go to " Activate " and make sure to have the option " Scheduled execution " unchecked

Deactivate system restore

System restore is another feature that we can disable to reduce data writing to our SSD. What this tool does is periodically save restore points so that, if we have a problem with the equipment, we can return to a state prior to the problem. It is something that can solve the odd problem in our team but that in return writes a fairly considerable amount of data in our SSD reducing its useful life, your choice is whether you want to disable it.

To deactivate system restore we only have to press the windows + x keys, enter " system ", " system protection " and a window will open in which we have to select the SSD of our equipment, click on " configure " and select the option " disable system protection ". From here we can also delete the restore points that we have created and free up a few GB of our hard disk.

This ends our tutorial to optimize SSD in Windows 10, if you are a user of windows vista or higher you can also follow it since the procedure is identical, especially from Windows 7.

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