Many of todays Solid State Drives (SSDs) offer the promise of improved performance, more consistent responsiveness, increased battery life, superior ruggedness, quicker startup times, and noise and vibration reductions. With prices dropping precipitously, most analysts expect more and more PCs to be sold with SSDs in place of traditional rotating hard disk drives (HDDs).
In Windows 7, weve focused a number of our engineering efforts with SSD operating characteristics in mind. As a result, Windows 7s default behavior is to operate efficiently on SSDs without requiring any customer intervention. Before delving into how Windows 7s behavior is automatically tuned to work efficiently on SSDs, a brief overview of SSD operating characteristics is warranted.
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