disk performance

When a Windows PC that once booted and responded instantly starts stuttering, the instinctive answers are a fresh reinstall or a hardware upgrade — but sometimes the culprit is far less dramatic: background services quietly consuming CPU, disk I/O, or network bandwidth. A short, targeted change...

The Git project has shipped version 2.51, a substantial maintenance-and-performance release that packs several storage-layer improvements aimed squarely at large repositories and monorepos, a new on-disk stash interchange format that finally makes stashes portable between machines, and...

Windows has long been celebrated for its versatility, but that flexibility also comes with quirks and complexities that can frustrate power users and casual consumers alike. As Microsoft evolves its flagship operating system, hidden services and features—originally designed as performance...

If you’re looking to boost your drive speeds while adding an extra layer of data redundancy on your Windows PC, software RAID using Windows’ built-in Storage Spaces might just be the solution. In this article, we explore the ins and outs of software RAID, guide you through a step-by-step setup...

1) Using cdburnerxp I burned a DVD mdisc on a Lite-On iHAS122-14 FU drive (currently firmware EL06) that previously burned and read DVD mdiscs. After burning, the burning test (if the burning was completed successfully) failed. Now, on that same drive, if I put the disc in, nothing appears. I...

Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...

I managed to retrieve my HP external drive from being a recovery drive. I finally got through to Dell tech support and they took files off. As an aside, I knew if I could format it it would erase everything and I could use it again. The Dell person did just that but I couldn't - I right clicked...

First off, thank you for your post. This driver installs properly and the disks attached to the controller are working, but not at the 6Gb/s speed that they should. Any ideas before I have to go back to Win7?

A question that has been bouncing around my head for years, is that when benchmarking any hard drive, it always produces the same general pattern...a gradually declining slope with regularly spaced dips across the entire slope. I just don't understand why those dips exist, because it doesn't...

Hi All, My PC was running great but when I started it from overnight sleep, which woke at the normal speed, I as always did a manual update to Avast definitions. It did the download as quick as always, but then during the "saving package" it hung. I left it like that for some minutes, and then...

Fixes an issue that occurs when you try to run WinSAT to check disk performance on a computer that is running Windows 7. This issue occurs when filter drivers hook the DeviceIoControl function. More...

I keep putting the drive offline because im wary of having it always active. It may have something to do with avast antivirus because thats the image thats listed next to the files in those drives. I checked with avast and it doesnt appear to be running any scans and theres no way I can find...

Hi all! Im not really good at VC++ but does anyone have a sample code to get the rotation speed of disk in a computer. I have been working on detecting SSD drives and one solution from researching all day was to get the rotation speed and since SSD have 0 rpm this might be the only way to detect...

Hello everyone, I am new here and this forum seems quite helpful. I obviously have a problem with Windows 7. My computer worked fine until yesterday evening when suddenly Windows stuck. It looks like my disk is working (or trying to work) constantly. I am only able to use my computer...

hi all i've finally joined the windows 7 bandwagon so pardon my n00bness. i've been tryin to figure out how to get a WEI score (which yes, I know some will say it's pointless), but i just want to have it. the problem i'm running into is this error with the disc performance. 9245882 (3804) -...

Helo, I have lenovo G555, witch has a AMD Athlon II Dual Core M320 proccessor, after i runed Windows expirience index rating, memory, graphics and disc had a subscore between 4,7 and 6,1 witch is ok. But the proccessor had only 2,9 what is very low, because my 8 year old AMD Athlon XP 1800+...

In Vista these two worked as expected but once in W7, they've been acting up since. Since using W7, looking in Nero 9 InfoTool showed the first drive - Read Speed 48x and Write Speed 16x while the second drive showed up as Read Speed 12x and Write Speed N/A. I've flashed them both to the latest...

Hi everybody--not sure if the is the right spot, so sorry if this might be better somewhere else. I went right to the 7001 beta from XP, never had Vista. My original hardware was: WD 250 G hard drive Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800 2.01 G 1 G ram NVidia 8800 GTS with Physx accl. NVidia...

Current Beta: x64 Build 7000 Hardware: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50N Laptop Model: Asus F8VA-B1 Symptoms: -Some CD/DVDs will lock up the drive and keep spinning (eject will not work) -Whatever action i was doing from that CD/DVD (installing, copying, etc) will be seen as "not responding" but i...