You can't disable journaling on NTFS.
That being said, the benefits are dubious these days. While writes are limited, the myths of write endurance existed from the first generation of SSDs that appeared in the enterprise market. I find it hard to believe that the same is still true ten years later.
For example, Corsair's blog posted this test.
http://www.corsair.com/blog/force-series-ssd-life-testing/
So one forum member decided to stomp the myth.
The user decided to take three files, copy it a whole bunch, then delete it.
It took 240 TiB of data written to the drive to finally kill it. And mind you, this is on a 40 GB Corsair with a SandForce controller.
The math is easy. If you wrote 20GiB of data a day, it would take you over 30 years to hit that number.
The rest of the blog post gets more detailed and it graphs the SMART data. I'll be glad when the day people stop this one to death. Like the whole "Moon landings were fake" BS. . .
Link is dead, need an archive version. – daka – 2020-01-12T00:00:52.537
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First phrase is wrong. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil.mspx?mfr=true
– gcb – 2011-11-18T00:15:47.9502@GCB: This only deletes the journal. There is nothing that prevents the OS from creating a new one. Try it yourself. – surfasb – 2011-11-20T13:52:02.217
i have no clue on how to use windows systems :) but was curious and found that page... the wording there is "Deleting or disabling an active..." so i assumed it was possible to... but knowing a little about MSDN, i should know better. – gcb – 2011-11-22T02:43:39.997
1When XP first came out, there were a lot of sites harping "speed tips" that included disabling journaling. So I was not surprised. I almost forgot that switch was still there. – surfasb – 2011-11-22T05:24:10.167