Tom's Guide: Hard Drive Optimization Tips and Tricks

[JMcEntegart]

Check out Tom's Guide's latest story on tips and tricks for optimizing your hard drive.

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[A Bad Day]

A shame you can't set the System Restore to use a different partition or hard drive other than the OS partition.

 

[Guest]

I disable the page file and system restore before even installing drivers on new windows install

 

[A Bad Day]

I recall the last time I disabled system restore, I needed it but didn't have a backup. Fail...

 

[Guest]

I do a system image backup weekly, system restore points can get corrupted, If something goes wrong it is useually easer just to re image my hard drive!

 

[danwat1234]

All those SSD tips, SSDs are tougher than you think. They can handle 100s of TB of writes before they start to wear out.

 

[tomfreak]

omg, people still use pagefile these days? turn it off, get more RAM instead.

Unless u are running a old system which limits the upgrade of large RAM module, then this pagefile might be useful.

 

[livebriand]

Why do we have these "articles" that are just links?

 

[The-Darkening]

[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]Why do we have these "articles" that are just links?[/citation]

I was asking the same question for some time now...

 

[SAL-e]

You are missing the most important SSD optimization: Partition Alignment more details could be found here: http://blog.nuclex-games.com/2009/ [...] -on-linux/