Windows 11 gives you a fast, modern experience — but without a few careful adjustments it can also generate avoidable write traffic that wears on an SSD over time. The good news is that a handful of well-understood, reversible tweaks — from confirming TRIM is working to sensible power and space...
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I upgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro on Dell XPS 8940 purchased 2 years ago. I upgraded a few months ago when Windows Update said my computer was ready. The upgrade went smoothly with no issues.
I frequently attach a USB external drive to the computer and back up large files to it...
I have connected my computer through USB 3.0 cable with an external (backup) hard disk (Hitachi HDS724040ALE640, SATA III, 7200rpm, 4TB, NTFS formatted, empty).
The USB controller in external case box and the
USB port on mainboard are USB 3.0 compatible.
When I benchmark now the transfer rate...
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when i try to copy files ( amount 80GB ) from main HDD to seconed connected HDD not by USB but with case cable not sure its name sata port or something the copy progress speed average is 3mb/sec which very slow and by the way i have checked both HDD for enable write cashing and also both are...
Turn AHCI on
Trim on: cmd/fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify=0
System Restore to Off
Drive Indexing-Explorer/right click SSD drive & select properties/Disable “Allow files on this drive, etc.
Paging File=Right click computer/adv...
With regard to Win7 setup for an SSD.
How to check the status of Superfetch/ReadyBoost/ Prefetch? I see in properties of my 2 SSDs under "policies" tab a setup for "Write -caching policy". Is this relevant?