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  1. SSD and NTFS Compression Speed Increase? - [H]ard|Forum

    May 21, 2010 · Say you have a 240MB uncompressed file (yet a candidate for 2:1 compression) and it takes your SSD - which can read data sequentially at 240MB/s, how convenient - 1 second to load it, and you compress the file to 120MB and now that file loads in half the time, you just effectively created a situation that gives the same performance of an SSD ...

  2. Users folder and SSD vs. HDD - [H]ard|Forum

    Apr 14, 2005 · the answer to your question heavily depends on the programs you run themselves, and their disk usage patterns. obviously a file that is on an SSD will load faster than a file on a HDD. since you have a fresh install of windows in front of you now, i would take a disk image of the drive, figure out some benchmarks to test the speed (time some application opening for example, but this has to be ...

  3. NVME SSD Pros, please help. Slow transfer speed while moving …

    Apr 26, 2010 · I have the Silicon Power 2TB NVME drive that has the blazing fast speeds as advertised on diskmark. Here is a screen shot of my setup. But whats baffling to me is this. I was trying to move cinebench from an unzipped folder on my desktop to a new folder i created (200mb) or so file, speeds were dipping to 1mb 10mb.

  4. New Plex user - compression settings - [H]ard|Forum

    Dec 23, 2013 · Edit: What I would do is still use MakeMKV. Mount the .ISO, open MakeMKV, and point it to the VIDEO_TS folder, then the .ifo file, and it will make the .mkv file. Try both ways and see if there is any quality differences and the file size difference.

  5. file and folder compression good for large (5GB) files?

    Feb 1, 2021 · If this is in the wrong forum sorry, this question is kinda tricky in where it goes. But I have a 300GB hard drive for my DVD archive and was wondering if enableing file and folder compression would be a good idea for these large (4Gb - …

  6. Enable page file on SSD or secondary HDD? - [H]ard|Forum

    Apr 5, 2013 · I imagine this question has been asked to death but which is better? Currently I have the page file set on my secondary HDD to conserve space on the SSD. My system has 16GB of DDR3 so I was tempted to disable it completely but I didn't.

  7. SSD to NAS file transfer over gigabit - why only 30MB/s?

    Dec 24, 2006 · If you are indeed only using a cat5 cable, that could be causing slow speeds. The theoretical max throughput of gig ethernet is 125MB/s, but it all depends on how fast your NAS can move the data. On a single file transfer, usually you should see 75-100 MB/s if your nas is capable of pushing data out as fast as your ssd is capable of.

  8. using compression on a ssd drive? - [H]ard|Forum

    Jun 6, 2010 · ssd drives are fast. how good of an idea it is to use compression on my 80gb ssd? bad? Jun 6, 2010 #2 ...

  9. Do you enable "write caching" for SSD's? - [H]ard|Forum

    Jan 1, 2010 · By default, Windows employs cache flushing. This means that the system will periodically instruct the storage device to transfer all data waiting in the cache to the principal storage media. When you select Enable write caching on this device, you turn off these periodic commands to transfer the data. Not all devices support all of these features.

  10. Regularly downloading large files to SSD - [H]ard|Forum

    Nov 14, 2021 · A typical 500GB ssd usually is 5y / 300TB, where a 1TB drive is 5y / 600TB. You would need to exceed 150GB of writes daily to hit your write limit before the 5 years is up on your average 500GB ssd. (roughly) long story short... generally you dont need to worry about writes unless it is a small or older ssd with limites warranty.

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