Taking care my new hard disk
Taking care my new hard disk
Hi Hard Disk Sentinel Team. Merry Christmast and Happy New year. Maybe you remember me. I send you a disk report and it aparently in perfect state i perform your test and the bios test. But that disk previously hits on the ground and that "health" was aparetnly now that disk have 4 days of life. I backup my info, lost some files and no use that disk anymore, now i have a new terabite hard disk i realice 4 partitions 1 for system another for games another more for backup of games (are very heavy to download) and another to data. I see some people says Windows 10 trash hd because do many wirtes. I read in forums 100% hard disk issue. I know if i desactivate some services I can preserve more my hard disk. I know disable prefetching and another things. I know somepeople disable Windows search i have a 4 core procesor and 4 GB RAM integrated graphics Intel. Windows 10 x64 when i start my pc it stays 100% hardisk for 3 or 4 minutes. I defrag my hd and perform test. Everything ok but i like to preserve more that hd and I want some tips. Thanks you for that. I wait your answers. I want to make changes at system level not hardware level, but every tip are good for me. And thanks for your support
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Re: Taking care my new hard disk
Hi,
Thanks for your kind words and I also wish Merry Christmas and Happy, Healthy New Year !!
Yes, if you prefer, you may change/disable some system features like Windows Indexing, search service and so.
It's hard to say anything for sure, as everybody uses the system differently and they may require different functions.
For example yes, disabling the search function can reduce disk utilisation and improve performance, but then you may lose some functionality or features of the system.
Personally I highly recommend to make a fixed size swapfile, for example set the minimum and maximum swapfile size to approx. double of the physical memory, for example 8000 MB if you have 4 GB RAM.
The best is to do this as soon as possible, before the hard disk is filled with data to ensure that the swapfile should be continuous (unfragmented) and positioned in (relatively) the beginning of the hard disk, which part is the fastest.
This can dramatically improve the performance as otherwise Windows always need to increase / decrease the swapfile size which causes lots of disk activity.
Thanks for your kind words and I also wish Merry Christmas and Happy, Healthy New Year !!
Yes, if you prefer, you may change/disable some system features like Windows Indexing, search service and so.
It's hard to say anything for sure, as everybody uses the system differently and they may require different functions.
For example yes, disabling the search function can reduce disk utilisation and improve performance, but then you may lose some functionality or features of the system.
Personally I highly recommend to make a fixed size swapfile, for example set the minimum and maximum swapfile size to approx. double of the physical memory, for example 8000 MB if you have 4 GB RAM.
The best is to do this as soon as possible, before the hard disk is filled with data to ensure that the swapfile should be continuous (unfragmented) and positioned in (relatively) the beginning of the hard disk, which part is the fastest.
This can dramatically improve the performance as otherwise Windows always need to increase / decrease the swapfile size which causes lots of disk activity.