Set the realtime defrag to off. And set a schedule for every other day
when you are sleeping.
Regards,
Zulfiqar Naushad
On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com wrote:
I use Diskeeper for a manual defrag every now and then. I don't like
it running in the background
Windows native deragger is pretty bad.
Regards,
Zulfiqar Naushad
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Joe User joeu...@chronic.org wrote:
Hello Thane,
Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 12:23:28 PM, you wrote:
At 12:54 PM 1/12/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
You guys still run defraggers?
That's what
Cooler with less power is good. What kind of WEI do you get under
Windows 7? I've been thinking of upgrading my Geforce 8800 GTS to
something, as this inexpensive Radeon HD 4670 is just a few clicks under
it on WEI (6.4 vs 6.9). I'd like to get above 7.0 on my home system.
Of course, going
Hello Zulfiqar,
Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 4:16:56 AM, you wrote:
Windows native deragger is pretty bad.
How so? 'Cuz I've been doing fine for years here.
--
Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Duncan, I lied. (I replied to the message I said I did not got.) Opps...
Rick Glazier
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From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Test
Rick,
Odd, but not surprised given all the
Very little. But yes. Rick Glazier
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From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!
You guys still run defraggers?
On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM,
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 with a dying hard drive. It's a 100GB
Seagate. I removed the drive and put it in our machine to clone it
using Acronis. It cloned successfully to a Western Digital 160GB
drive, and when I rebooted (still on our computer, both drives showed
up normally, the new
Yes, it is known as Media Direct HPA (Host Protected Area)
see http://www.hdat2.com/hdat2_faq.html#q15
You can remove this HPA are with this SW also or with another (google for
Dell Media Direct HPA)
e.g. http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM,
We've had issues on our new Dell E6400's and Desktops where we have to make
sure the drive controller is not set to AHCI mode in BIOS or our ImageCast
drives will not work.
Granted, our version of ImageCast is a bit old, but this sounds like the same
kind of issue.
If we set the BIOS to IDE
I've noticed it is better if you pick one and stay with it.
Otherwise they seem to try to improve each others
works and make lots more work in the process..
Rick Glazier
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From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org
To: Zulfiqar Naushad hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent:
At 02:19 PM 1/13/2010, JRS wrote:
We've had issues on our new Dell E6400's and Desktops where we have
to make sure the drive controller is not set to AHCI mode in BIOS or
our ImageCast drives will not work.
Granted, our version of ImageCast is a bit old, but this sounds like
the same kind of
At 02:16 PM 1/13/2010, LubomÃr Äabla wrote:
Yes, it is known as Media Direct HPA (Host Protected Area)
see http://www.hdat2.com/hdat2_faq.html#q15
You can remove this HPA are with this SW also or with another (google for
Dell Media Direct HPA)
e.g.
At 03:03 PM 1/13/2010, Tim Lider wrote:
Is the computer you cloned it from able to access the data on the computer?
If so, then it could be the dell does not recognize the 160GB hard drive
correctly. I have seen this many times on Legacy machines that do not have
LBA32 or higher drive mapping.
I don't want to pop for a larger SSD right now, but I am thinking of
getting a 30GB OCZ just to try out, maybe use it for video editing,
game install. I am wondering how well this might work out for a
pagefile.sys file? How close is it to RAM speeds?
No, Acronis or Dell PC cannot change a firmware of hard disk.
I think it is Host Protected Area (HPA) only.
Just download any program to check if HPA is present and remove it
with SET MAX ADDRESS command.
It is really simple (if I am not wrong).
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Thane Sherrington
There is a solution:
Acronis HPA Makes the Cloned Drive Display Wrong Capacity
http://kb.acronis.com/content/1710
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Thane Sherrington
th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote:
At 03:03 PM 1/13/2010, Tim Lider wrote:
Is the computer you cloned it from able to
I do not see how Acronis wrote to the Firmware of the drive. That is really
weird.
Regards,
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
Could the HPA be located between LBA 1 and 62? If so just wipe those
sectors clean and should fix the problem. This is the first time I have
seen this problem with clone software changing the size of the drive.
If it is not on the sectors I mentioned. You can change the Max LBA of a
drive. But
Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad.
Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare
the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850
or 5870 but what's the point if you never game. Might as well stay with
what you have.
Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those,
but if you could afford to wear it out, go for it.
It would be faster than a SwapFile on an HD.
Intel has a white paper on this IIRC.
(I don't have any but might have stored the whitepaper.)
Rick Glazier
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From:
Have you checked the drive for any un-allocated space?
It is real easy to copy a drive over to a big drive and have
it come out smaller (the old size) on the new drive.
That happens EASY (unless you prevent it) while doing a partition only
Image and Restore.
(I came in late, but I read the last
That doesn't make sense. First these are hard drives... not flash
drives. Limit writes??... what kind of hard drive is that. People
typically put their OS on these and pagefile.sys defaults to the C drive.
At 02:28 PM 1/13/2010, you wrote:
Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those,
but
Yeah, I disabled indexing and the swap drive on mine (have 4 gigs of memory, so
never use the swap drive anyhow) after reading some tips on how to optimize for
SSD's
On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those,
but if you could afford to
It makes perfect sense. SSD drives are flash drives in the sense that
they have a limited number of writes per cell (but virtually
unlimited reads).
Which is why with an SSD drive you don't want to do operations like
defragging, swap files, and run tools like Spin Rite. But most of
Rick is 100% correct. You need to read up on it a little more.
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:25 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] SSD
It makes sense. Sorry.
Rick Glazier
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From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [H] SSD question
That doesn't make sense. First these are hard drives... not flash
drives.
The real problem is with the concept of a swap file. Ram is cheap
enough to have all you could need.
---
Brian
maybe, but there are some apps that won't run well without the swap
file... like Acrobat PRO. And while I noticed a big difference in XP
PRO when disabling the swap file
Winterlight,
Think you are wrong. SSD's are in essence very large flash drives. They
are not mechanical; hence their speed increase.
Limit writes?? Yes, absolutely. Writes wear out this cells. Reads of
the [chosen, fixed] cells are !!FREE!!.
I could be very wrong, but this is what I get from
This is a training class link below. This is not where I got my original info,
but it might help clarify it.
http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2009/sf/aep/IDF_2009_MEMS003/f.htm
This is all new stuff, and has little to do with old ideas.
Hear what they say starting around 3min 40secs.
IDF
Maybe one old idea we need to keep is that hard drives are for storage.
Swap files are for when RAM was expensive.
My latest box could have 16G of RAM. (Not in my lifetime.)
RAM is cheaper and last longer than an SSD.
That is all we are saying.
Rick Glazier
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From:
Rick,
That is a good point, but you focus on swap files. Think this is a bad
focus.
Yes, RAM is relatively cheap now. Way back when not so.
Yes, hard drives are still relatively cheap now. (I think.)
Way back when I still recall all the list traffic about who's using
who's HD. :)
The swap
Duncan - I've been moving my Windows swap file for years now. And under
both Windows Vista and Win 7 you can run without a swap file (XP required
one).
---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285
graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives me
7.4 for both graphics scored.
My HD score is a lowly 5.9. This is with a VelociRaptor for the boot drive
and 3 1TB WD black drives. I have dreams of
My 8800GT got 6.9, but I just replaced it with a Radeon 5770, which gets
7.4.
My disk sub-score is 7.9 with two Intel G2 SSDs. :)
-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-
boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Wednesday, January
WowI get 7.4 with one Intel G2 SSD. Are yours striped?
On 1/13/2010 10:38 PM, Greg Sevart wrote:
My 8800GT got 6.9, but I just replaced it with a Radeon 5770, which gets
7.4.
My disk sub-score is 7.9 with two Intel G2 SSDs. :)
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