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Do apps installed on HDD run slower than if installed on SSD?
I have an Acer Aspire V Nitro Black Edition Laptop. It has a 256Gb SSD unit, where Windows 10 is installed, and a 1Tb HDD for data storage. After installing some software into the default Program Data ...
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SSD NVMe drop in write speed
I bought a Corsair Force MP510 NVMe SSD 480 Go 4 months ago, it was such a breeze with significant high read/write speed and the benchmark was as announced in CrystalDiskMark7 (I had 3,3GB/s (3.5 in ...
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Hard drive usage/latency skyrocketing for no apparent reason?
I am running Windows 10 Home Edition on a Gigabyte Aorus motherboard. I have a Western Digital Blue 4TB spinning hard drive (connected with SATA) which seems to be functioning incorrectly.
In my ...
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How do I measure the time taken for Samsung's Intelligent TurboWrite buffer to be empty again?
I have a 1 TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD which is Samsung's QLC NAND SSD offering.
It has an SLC cache used as a buffer during writes and I observed speeds of upto 520 MB/s for up to 10 gigabytes of ...
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Slow Hard Disk Response Time
I have a laptop computer running Windows 10. The performance has become unbearable.
Looking at Task Manager, I can see that the Average Response Time sometimes gets over 450 ms, and the Active Time ...
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Windows 10 - Slow shutdown and restart / how to read Windows Performance Analyzer results
In trying to revive an old laptop (Asus N56VZ) so my brother can use it for school, I installed an SSD where the HDD used to be, to speed it up. True enough, the general speed of the laptop increased ...
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Is there a way to improve chkdsk performance in HDD?
I have a system which has 8 GB of RAM. While running chkdsk it takes quite a bit of time to complete. This is for external HDD. I know there are two options -
Have an SSD, that should improve ...
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Just added second NVMe SSD - primary drive is still HDD - Optimizing Windows 10
I just purchased a new Lenovo E485 laptop that came with a primary 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD with Windows installed. I bought a NVMe SSD and installed it and everything works fine. Strangely, a SSD was not ...
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Windows 10 CMD responds extremely slow
My command line is so slow. I mean even ruby -v takes 10-13 seconds to return version and more complex commands like running rails s is a pain.
I tried chkdsk and no problem found.
Tried to have ...
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HDD 100% disk usage on idle but 0% usage on SMART scan
Recently I got a new internal HDD ( replaced old one which had bad sectors ) for my HP Pavilion au003tx laptop and it has been giving me micro-stutters and random freezes.
Even playing a 720p video ...
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Slow IO Operations but Benchmark Says SSD Fast
I have a laptop (HP ENVY x360) that is only a year old. It has 16GB of RAM, an Intel-i7 7500u 7th Gen, and a Samsung PCI Express 512GB SSD. When I read/write to the drive, it hangs for a second or two ...
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Testing Hard Drive Performance [closed]
I am trying to compare performance of several hard drives in my current system, and downloaded performance test 9.0 to try to run some comparisons. Things were going well until I ran the test on a ...
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Hard drive speed is slow only when booting from it
Since I felt that my Windows 10 system wasn’t performing at its max, I decided to check the speed of the 3 drives in my machine with HD Tune. What I found out was that the system drive’s speed is ...
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Sporadic extremly slow read speed on hard disk
For some time I have a sporadic issue with my hard disk, showing up in the form of extremely slow access time (~200 ms according to Windows) and read speed (~ 1 MB/sec). This holds even for sequential ...
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Periodical performance drops and high HDD usage Windows10
Usually my system performs fine. However, periodically, there are temporary performance drops. Basically the Task Manager shows 100% HDD usage and the culprits invariably turn out to be system related ...
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