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by docrobin
2013.01.11. 12:35
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Disk performane - date of installation and data
Replies: 4
Views: 20679

Re: Disk performane - date of installation and data

Excellent idea. I shall look them up later. Thanks for the help.

RB
by docrobin
2013.01.09. 21:55
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Disk performane - date of installation and data
Replies: 4
Views: 20679

Re: Disk performane - date of installation and data

>I can make sure the devices (HDD or SSD) do not provide any kind of date when they first used. Thank you. I did not know that. >So the "date of installation" means the very first date when Hard Disk Sentinel finds the particular device. >This is (in general) the date of installation of th...
by docrobin
2013.01.09. 12:21
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Disk performane - date of installation and data
Replies: 4
Views: 20679

Disk performane - date of installation and data

Disk Performance data is showing nicely now since the registry changesI made enabled the counters. The first line is "Total Data Read nn GB NNN GB since installation (dd/mm/yyyy)" This is invaluable information, particularly for SSDs. But, is it correct? I installed my SSD back in August, ...
by docrobin
2012.12.24. 21:51
Forum: Questions
Topic: Performance Measurements switched off by Windows 7
Replies: 2
Views: 6814

Re: Performance Measurements switched off by Windows 7

Actually, WMI (Management Instrumentation, was set to 'manual' when I first looked at it. its description says, in part, "If WMI is not running, it automatically starts when the first management application or script requests connection to a WMI namespace." I set it to 'automatic' and the ...
by docrobin
2012.12.24. 02:18
Forum: Questions
Topic: Performance Measurements switched off by Windows 7
Replies: 2
Views: 6814

Performance Measurements switched off by Windows 7

This is a weird one. I bought HD M recently and followed the instructions for activating the disk performance measurements. In particular, setting the registry key (in Win 7) "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Perfdisk\Performance\disable performance counters" to 0 (zero...