How to Optimize Your Hard Drive For Increased Speed and Performance 

Glad it was helpful!

This will also make defragmentation a bit faster, correct?

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Thanks, will do!

You're welcome

Glad you think so!

Haha i know so sir.Your videos helped me alot in many ways

Short stroking goes way back.

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Have fun!

@@Britec09 Worked like a charm. 😉

yes

You are very welcome

I did run a speed test on the same drive.

yes...

but not with a solid state drive, SSD

how to do this

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well no, only the 1st 200gb is gonna be the faster one (as you can see in the vid graph how the performance dips down after the first 200gb) since its on the outer faster spinning side of the disk (you can watch "How To Optimize Your Hard Drive For Speed" by " NCIX Tech Tips" if you dont understand, or probably some physics circular motion lectures 😁) and its advised to have programs NOT run on the other partitions cuz doing that will require the disk head to move in closer to the slower spinning side, so preferably just if you want consistent speed either just store data you never really access there or just occasionally or just expect it to perform slower when you do

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Storage only. DONT install games or programs in there. Move movies, music, or videos.

QuickEdit should be enabled by default in windows 10

Yeah its been around a long time. Trouble is Linus don't show anything in his videos, just talks about them.

@@Britec09 Even if he did I'd doubt that it would be useful after all this time.

Hard to answer questions in comments, better place to ask is my discord server

Depending on your setup, Windows can make accessing large drives with a lot of data rather difficult. I've not encountered your particular issue, but in the past if I've needed to recover data from a drive that's not broken but not responding well within Windows, I've used a live Linux distro booted from a USB stick and accessed the problematic drive that way with little fuss.

@@FlyboyHelosim I don't know much about Linux, but, I have Linux Ubuntu, so if you please explain it to me what to do with that, then it will be very kind of you.

@@ryanrbose289 For a start you'll need a working computer to make the USB installation, a free USB stick of maybe 8Gb or more, the Linux ISO file, and a program to burn Linux to the USB drive (I recommend Rufus). Ubuntu is quite heavy for this task so I'd recommend the lighter Xubuntu, which is based on Ubuntu so should still feel familiar but requires less disk space and is more responsive running off a USB stick (which has slower practical data transfer rates than a hard drive). You may want to look up videos for the actual procedure, but basically you will: * Create a bootable Linux USB stick. * Insert it into your computer when it's off. * Plug in your problematic external hard drive. * Turn the computer on and immediately repeatedly hit whatever key gets you to the boot options menu (or you may have to access the BIOS and temporarily change the boot order to USB first). * Boot from USB stick and run Linux but DON'T install it. * When in Linux find and select your problematic hard drive. * Access data simply as if it's a drive on an actual computer running Linux. You can also transfer data from the problematic drive to your actual computer or another external drive this way, if you want to actually move the data.

@@FlyboyHelosim Well, thank you and very much appreciated! you may be a teacher, because you explained it perfectly! thank you very much...

@@ryanrbose289 No problem. If you get stuck then reply and I'll try to help you. I know the process is rather lengthy but Linux can read multiple file systems with not much fuss. Another suggestion would be to grab a program such as CrystalDiskInfo (Windows) and check the health status of that external hard drive to make sure it doesn't have any errors or bad health.

You can use the whole drive

No, different partition sizes use different cluster sizes by default, and it's the cluster size that determines the performance of read and write operations. This is because the drive can read more data per sweep of the drive head. But there is a caveat, the bigger the cluster size the higher the read and write operation but it causes what's called cluster waste. That is when a clusters space is wasted by being only partially occupied. Example: the cluster size is 64kb, but it's only holding 4kb of data, then that cluster is considered completely used leaving 60kb of actual unused space. This man doesn't really fully understand what he's presenting, but he's trying, and one the right path per se. You can manually set the cluster size in windows, for high performance pick a bigger cluster size, smaller cluster size for more usable disk space at the expense of read/write performance. The tool he's using can be very useful in helping determine the proper cluster size for your needs on the drive you intend to use, this is independent of the partition size unless you are using an old partition type such as Fat32 which has limits on partition sizes and cluster sizes.

Well you see it in the video

Cluster sizes are less important on SSD but my testing shows they should be set to 1024b for most SSD's for least amount of cluster waste and read/write performance. Though many articles will state cluster size is irrelevant on SSD/NVME's but real life testing proves otherwise.

@@ikannunaplays Thanks for spending your time for this wonderful reply ! I understood somewhat.. but i need to read your comment again and again to get better understanding.. deep concept inserted into a small paragraph ! 👍

Partition Magic has/had a utility for determining your current cluster waster/performance loss from the set cluster size of a particular drive.

what do you mean lol

Try whitelisting it in your antivirus.

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You're welcome.

Yes, now I understand why I've always heard if you partition a mechanic drive it will speed it up, but it only speeds up the first partition you make. Which is nice to know. This, like ssd's only actually increases the loading time, once a game or program is up and running, you may not see any changes. So, if you only have a hdd, after a format, I'd partician 20 to 30% of the drive for the first partition and load WIndows and games on that.

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@@Britec09 to me

Thanks

I know, but very large NVME are way to expensive, so Hard Drives will be around for a while yet.

But SSD's and NVME do not live as long, I already have many failing only 1-2 years later and I have HDD's that are over 10 yr's old still chugging along. So, use NVME's and SSD's where speed is critical but stability is second.

@@ikannunaplays Well I had the opposite experience: many hard-drives failed over the years. I all replaced them with SSD's. I did had a OCZ arc 100 240GB failing on me. But they seem to be known for that: shitty Toshiba nand.

@@detmer87 Toshibas, and Seagate drives are trash and only last about a year or two.

Did you see me pay? no, its a trial

@@Britec09 well there was no trail on mine