Make sure you plug SATA cabel in an SATA3 slot and NOT in SATA2 slot
Check in your bios if the contrller is in AHCI (not IDE) mode. You can aslo check in Device manager – IDE/ATA/ATAPI Controlers section.
Make sure drivers are up to date
Turn system protection off – My Computer RCLick – Properties – Advanced System Settings – System Protection Tab – Disable it for the designated
parttitions.
Turn off pagefile – My Computer RCLick – Properties – Advanced System Settings – Advanced – Settings… (Performance) – Advanced Tab – Change…(Virtual Memory) – Select “No paging file” radio button for the desired drive
Turn hibernation off – run dos prompt as administrator and write powercfg -h off
Confirm TRIM is functioning – Open DOS console with administrative rights and type: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotifyIf it returns 0, TRIM is enabled. If it returns 1, TRIM is disabled
Disable files last access time – Open DOS console with administrative rights and type: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
Enable Optimize drives (WIndows 8)
Enable faster boot trough MSconfig – run Msconfig from console – Boot Tab – Put checkbox on No GUI Boot
Turn off multiboot selection – My Computer RCLick – Properties – Advanced System Settings – Advanced – Settings… (Startup and recovery) –
Remove tick from “Time to display list of operating systems”
Disable drive indexing – My Computer – RClick on the partition – General TAb – Remove checkbox from “Allow files on this drive to have contents
indexed … “
Disable sheduled defragmentation – My Computer – RClick on the partition – Tools Tab – Defragment Now… (Defragmentation) – Disable defragmentation for desired partition
Disable Write chache buffer flushing – My Computer RClick – Manage – Device Manager – Select your drive and RClick – Policies tab – Remove
checkbox from “Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device”
Disable windows search – My Computer RClick – Manage – Services and Applications – Services – Windows Search – Set Startup Type to Disabled
Disable superfetch – My Computer RClick – Manage – Services and Applications – Services – Superfetch – Set Startup Type to Disabled
Disable prefetch – Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters – Set “Enable Prefetcher” value to “0”
