SSD disks offer more performance than traditional HDD disks, because they don't need to make seek from track to tracks to positioning the read / write heads. This is because they don't use mechanics (any spinning parts, motors, etc.). They use billions (depending on their capacity) of capacitors to store binary. This capacitors can be accessed simultaneously and every capacitor no need seek time for taking access.

This is the main key feature for their performance improvements, but always you can make some tweaks to get more from SSD disks. With this tutorial I will show you how you can set some SSD Performance Tweaks and to get more disk performance.

Lets start with regedit.

Superfetch

Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters. Next right click on EnableSuperfetch, select modify and change 3 to 0 and press OK button.

Prefetch

Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters. Next right click on EnablePrefetcher, select modify and change 3 to 0 and press OK button.

ClearPageFilesAtShutdown

Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and set ClearPageFilesAtShutdown to 0

SecondLevelDataCache

Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and set SecondLevelDataCache to the size of the Level 2 cache of your CPU. The value is decimal.

NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreatation

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. Set NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreatation to 1.

NtfsMemmoryUsage

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. Set NtfsMemmoryUsage to 2.

All of this tweaks affects directly to disk performance. Any system with minimal amount of RAM have to use disk drives to store virtual memory. After rebooting with this tweak, this intensive disk operations will be speed improvement and you have to feel some speed up of your Windows Vista.


You can check How to use Intel SSD Toolbox on Kingston SSDNow to get TRIM tutorial.