{"id":1096,"date":"2013-11-21T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2013-11-21T23:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:06:20","slug":"windows-8-1-upgrade-ssd-optimisation-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/windows-8-1-upgrade-ssd-optimisation-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 Upgrade and SSD optimisation warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-1716046928\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Be warned.<\/p>\n<p>When you upgrade from windows 8 to windows 8.1 it is actually a complete windows update equivalent to going from windows 7 to windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so it blasts away a number of your settings that you may not have thought of.<\/p>\n<p>When I installed my Samsung 830 SSD in my laptop I used Samsung magician to optimise and change the settings that are not required with SSD drives.<\/p>\n<p>I did things like:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Disabled Pre-fetch and super-fetch<\/li>\n<li>Turned off scheduled defrag<\/li>\n<li>adjusted my pagefile down to certain limit<\/li>\n<li>turn off write-cache buffer flushing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After windows 8.1 is installed all of these settings are lost. I found out much to my surprise as a defrag had been executed on my machine.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few articles that talk about all the possible optimisations, the first is from microsoft;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2727880\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 &#038; SSD: defragmentation, SuperFetch, prefetch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/reviews\/ssd-performance-tweak,2911.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can You Get More Space Or Speed From Your SSD?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be warned. When you upgrade from windows 8 to windows 8.1 it is actually a complete windows update equivalent to going from windows 7 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}