Intel X-25m tweaks needed in Vista?

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Prefetching should be turned off. Prefetch places the bootup items (copy) in a different spot so that it could be loaded quicker sequentially. But that's not necessary with SSDs and adds writes.


Defrag should be turned off. Defrag isn't strictly unnecessary, but the built-in defrag doesn't do it right for SSDs and adds writes.


Superfetch should be left on. Data is read from the disk so that's safe for the SSD. Fast as SSD's are, RAM is still faster.


Page file should be left on unless you can put it on a different drive.


Write cache should be left on unless your system is prone to crashing in the middle of disk activity. If it's your primary workstation, this should not be happening; find and fix the problem. If this is your extreme workstation, then a little disk corruption shouldn't matter.


Indexing is a tossup. Even a SSD is not fast enough to null the need for indexing. Indexing does put a very modest number of writes when it creates and updates the index (in the overall view of things, it's trivial). Reading the index obviously has no penalties and as usual RAM is far faster than even a SSD. Remember, you're not supposed to index everything, only things you want instant-search on.