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Using a SSD as my only drive on a laptop
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Mar 15, 2026883 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My conventional hard drive is clicking (second time this year I've killed the drive), so I just bought a SSD to benefit from the lack of moving parts. However, I am deathly afraid of using this as the only drive in my laptop running Windows 7, because the swap file is going to kill the flash with t…
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Fix for: Using a SSD as my only drive on a laptop
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Windows 7 is heavily optimised to make full use of both the advantages and disadvantages of SSDs. There's a blog post from the Windows 7 engineering team about it: Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives Windows 7 will continue to use the swap file o…
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