Yes, I still have some physical drives.
Yes, NTFS generally doesn’t need defragging, but I’m adjusting some drives – on a slow drive nonetheless, so I want to “Optimize” per Microsoft Windows 10.
I really miss seeing the blocks, or generally, the blocks and continuous areas. It’s a wee bit easier to tell “about” how much progress is needed, and gives the feeling of progress.
I’m currently looking at pass 14; each pass has shown 98% relocated. Are we getting close?
This morning, it was analyzed, saying 0% fragmented, but a manual run 3 hours later showed Needs optimization (12% Fragmented)
A slow drive: 5300 RPM 1TB. I was looking at a 3200+ ms response time. The thing was basically dead. R/W 41 kB/s : 1.4 MB/s at 3255ms & 4.4MBs : 8.5MBs @ 1056 ms
Adjusting, I haven’t used this since November, so I’m adding a Linux/Apache/Logging/backup/etc server, et al.
We’ll see how well it runs Linux. The thing worked great with the SSD. I picked up the SSD because the physical drive was super slow (5300 RPM), but when the SSD failed, I could not justify replacing it since the hinges on the HP (Hewlett-Packard) would no longer stay in place. I’ve replaced the screen’s supports 2x. Half the screws no longer have a place to screw into. It’s also got a decent Graphics Co-processor – Two actually (Intel and Radeon). They are one of the reasons I liked it, especially with the dedicated graphics memory. (I HATE SHARED MEMORY). It helped that I was able to upgrade the memory and add an M2 SSD (Not sure I’m ready for that potential failure again, but I can perhaps see myself upgrading to a faster physical Media HD.
Being a Radeon 5300 series, the GPU wasn’t super fancy, but my new laptop has twice the memory, and the processor performs twice as well. However, the memory, being shared with the graphics system, makes it super subpar. (I HATE SHARED MEMORY) Keeps causing hiccups and pauses. Plus, it’s just Intel’s built into the processor one. I sure miss the way the old system utilized both. Photo & Video editors both used them along with Steam, and ???. It was super Zippy
p.s. Windows Defragmenter, “Optimize Drives”, is now up to pass 19.
NOTE: I opted for a ThinkPad; hopefully, this is more durable than the HP one. It does have a spill-protected keyboard, but alas, do I care given the lack of a dedicated memory GPU.
QUESTION: Is there an M2 GPU that can be added to this laptop‽!!! Especially with dedicated memory!