Be sure to install the SSD software in order to access this feature. Most SSD manufacturers also offer a software utility with their SSDs for easy firmware updating. If so, instructions on updating your firmware should also be included with the specific SSD you have. Then simply go to the manufacturer’s website to see if newer firmware exists for your SSD. This may be achieved with Crystal Disk Info which may be found here. To do so, first identify the firmware running on your SSD.
This may significantly improve your drive performance, improve drive stability, or improve compatibility with your system, so definitely update your firmware if needed. Just like every other piece of computer hardware you own, updating the firmware on your SSD is important as new bugs and problems get identified and resolved. Finding and installing drivers is as easy as visiting the manufacturer’s website. Where I tend to see the biggest performance benefit is for the high end PCIe SSDs as the Windows native NVMe driver is slow at best. While it’s not necessary to update the native Windows AHCI drivers for SSDs to work, updating the drivers with Intel RST (for Intel-based systems) could provide a big performance benefit. One of the most common reasons I see for slow SSD performance is outdated drivers.
In the search bar type ‘Defragment and Optimize Drives’.Here’s how to check whether Windows is optimizing your SSD. Using the Windows Optimize Drives utility, this may be scheduled to be done automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. TRIM ensures that deleted files are wiped from the SSD so that future incoming writes will perform at peak levels.
With Windows 10, Microsoft added the Optimize Drives feature which runs the TRIM command on your SSD to ensure that it’s being done. As such, Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 10, now enables most of our previously recommended SSD optimizations by default, so we’ll take this opportunity to not only talk about the relevancy of previously recommended optimizations, but also share some general advice on SSD best practices. They’ve also seen mass adoption recently thanks to huge growth in the tablet and ultraportable notebook market.
With Windows 10 however, things are a bit different as SSDs are now a relatively well known technology with years of development behind them. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product and while Windows 7 had a number of optimizations for SSDs built in, there were still quite a few things to tweak to achieve the best performance and the longest lifespan out of the SSD. Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers.
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