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    Posted: 22 Aug 2015 at 6:40am
I'm looking forward to my new Slade in a couple weeks, and I've read there are benefits to limiting the write's to an SSD for longer life. One SSD will be for the OS, the other (1TB) will hold all my flight simulator programs and sceneries. I will also have a HDD to hold my movies, pictures, etc...

My question is should I have downloads and temp files go to my HDD, or is their a guide somewhere that explains how to set up Windows to best utilize their drives?
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Unless you are downloading things throughout the day, everyday, I wouldn't worry about it. There is load balancing in the drive controller that will write to different cells each time to limit the number of writes across all of the cells. Just keep a sufficient amount of free space on your drive and you should be fine and not ever need to worry about wearing out the drives number of writes for many, many years.
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Okay, that sounds good to me, and I thank you for the quick response.
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Recent articles that I've been reading point to SSD life cycles increasing far beyond what they used to.  I don't think you have much to worry about especially now that TRIM and the SSDs' own internal optimization functions are available if TRIM is not.
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That's good to hear, since these 1TB SSD's cost quite a bit. I've read to never defrag an SSD, and that makes sense.
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Originally posted by curt1

That's good to hear, since these 1TB SSD's cost quite a bit. I've read to never defrag an SSD, and that makes sense.


Yeah, if you go into Disk Defragmenter in Windows 8.1, the SSDs don't have an option to defrag, but instead offer to "Optimize," which is running TRIM against them.  You can schedule a regular TRIM run for them as well.  And the beautiful thing is, even on a 1TB SSD, it only takes a few seconds.
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Defrag is something that will wear down the cells on an SSD over time, if done on a regular basis. In effect, defrag will rewrite all of the fragmented bits of data scattered around a drive into large sequential pieces, so when that infomation is accessed, it can read it as one large chunk. This greatly benefits HDD's, but with SSD's fast random read, handling these scattered bits is much easier. Theoretically, you can still gain a little performance from defragmenting an SSD so your reads are sequential, but you really don't want to do it very often, if at all. The industry has gone so far as completely recommend against it, due to how little the gains would be and not many people understand that it wears down the SSD a very little bit each time it is performed that can add up over an extended period of time.
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Thanks again, Roykirk, I appreciate the information. Of all the components in a computer build, it's the SSD that has me the most enthused.
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if the automatic TRIM function isn't doing it for you, you can very easily force Active Garbage Collection (which is essentially the same as defragging a HDD w/o the wear problems). force Active Garbage Collection to run on the drive by powering the SSD on and leaving it idle for 6 to 8 hours. After that, your drive’s functionality and performance should be restored.

Follow these steps to trigger Active Garbage Collection on your SSD:


On a desktop PC, simply disconnect the SATA cable from your SSD and only leave the power cable connected. After switching your PC on, the SSD will be in an idle state but still have power so Garbage Collection can function. On a laptop, power on with the SSD installed and enter your system BIOS (please refer to your system manufacturer’s documentation on how to access the BIOS.) Leave the laptop in the BIOS menu for the 6-8 hours.

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