Hardrives SSD

[Micks]

The phone home stuff is easy to turn off, so that is really a non-event. 8 and 8.1 were not that different really, so not sure how your like one and not the other. WinOSX is rock solid, except if you are on the insiders program - had 3 laptops upgrade and BSOD thanks to a faulty patch. Stick to normal and you should be all good (and faster than WinOS7).

Have my W7 OS slimmed down/trimmed of bloat, so it runs pretty well

[team illucid]

10 is still smaller by default than 7. Not that it means anything with 32GB RAM and Core i7 CPUs these days.

[Micks]

10 is still smaller by default than 7. Not that it means anything with 32GB RAM and Core i7 CPUs these days.

Yes am running a pretty quick i7-4ghz rig. Never adopted neither Win 8 or 8.1 & will continue to mod win 10 to my liking in a VM till I changeover to it.

On desktops things aren't quite so rosy. Crashes aplenty......

Sure I use to have PC crashes in the early days when I didn't know what parts worked with each other but after sourcing parts & building PC's from scratch
have really only had secondary hard drives fail in that time. Never had a BSOD as I rebuild my source OS at least twice a year & reload windows.
With the newer SSD's now I don't expect them to fail readily.

[C4B]

Yes am running a pretty quick i7-4ghz rig. Never adopted neither Win 8 or 8.1 & will continue to mod win 10 to my liking in a VM till I changeover to it.


Sure I use to have PC crashes in the early days when I didn't know what parts worked with each other but after sourcing parts & building PC's from scratch
have really only had secondary hard drives fail in that time. Never had a BSOD as I rebuild my source OS at least twice a year & reload windows.
With the newer SSD's now I don't expect them to fail readily.

You rebuild your OS twice a year???? That must get the geeks on whirlpool rock hard....

[Micks]

You rebuild your OS twice a year???? That must get the geeks on whirlpool rock hard....

I certainly do on my main comp, doing this for years now & nothing better than a freshen up. Everything else stored on seperate sata drives.
Btw what's Whirlpool?? Occasionally drop in at msfn or mdl!

[Wonky]

Oops! I obviously hadn't engaged my brain fully on my previous post(s)..........

As a matter of interest I did a comparison between my 3 drives and OSs. All three OSs were only recently installed and have about the same amount of files, as can be judged by the Norton scans. Norton 360 allows delayed starts on selected programs so I went in and made all pre-loaded programs start without delay to make it easier to judge. Even so, the boot up times were difficult to judge exactly as I waited till both the disk activity light had gone out for a sec or longer and the 4 cores activity percentages according to Cacheman were all between 0 and 3 (rarely if ever see all 4 at 0).

Basically according to those results my 1TB SSD (Transcend, not Kingston!) the SSD is 3 to 4 times faster than my 1TB 7200rpm HD and 4 to 5 times faster than my 2 TB 5900rpm HD.

1 TB SSD with Win 10 (Transcend SSD370)

To fully boot = 45s & 46s
to scan 7,790 files (Norton) = 45s
to scan 7,744 files (Norton) = 47s

1 TB HD with Win 10 (Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS @ 7200rpm)

To fully boot = 2m 50s & 2m58s
to scan 7,704 files (Norton) = 2m 17s
to scan 7,589 files (Norton) = 2m 04s

2 TB HD with Win 8.1 (Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 @ 5900 RPM)

To fully boot = 3m 52s & 3m38
to scan 7,290 files (Norton) = 2m 38s
to scan 7,570 files (Norton) = 2m 43s

[Wonky]

BTW Merry Chrisso Gaz
How do you find Win10? I have stuck with 7 atm though have previously virtualized 8 & 8.1 not very happy with those but 8.1 shits all over 8. Have virtualized 10 over the last six months but not impressed with MS telementary (phone home) crap.

Same to you thanks Mick.

Maybe I'm strange but I like Win10 better than 7/8/8.1. It seems slightly quicker (may be imagination) and I like using it better. I don't remember having any BSOD with it except after I'd done something to cause it/them and have been using it for a while now.

[Micks]

Good comparisons there Gaz Yes the std wims from MS are around 4gb a fully updated image is about 700mb more. My Iso that install from usb with all silent apps is around 5.5gb.
I will changeover to Win 10 soon just want to tweak with package manager & dism to remove excess bloat & internal programs that are not required.

[team illucid]

Ugh. Norton.

[C4B]

Amen. I wouldn't put Norton on my worst enemies machine.

Ugh. Norton.

[Wonky]

Agree Norton products used to be resource hogs but nowadays they're much better. In fact I read a review of quite a number of anti virus products a year or so ago and Norton is now one of the fastest and most efficient of them all. I use Norton 360 (5 user) and it also has additional features I make use of, especially Identity Safe and its password vault. I'm very happy with it!

[team illucid]

Try ESET Wonks ... The ONLY AV product I use personally and recommend (it used to be Nod32).

[team illucid]

Speaking of SSDs - I went to JB today and picked up another external 1TB Samsung T1 - $513.00 with the sales on.

[Wonky]

Try ESET Wonks ... The ONLY AV product I use personally and recommend (it used to be Nod32).

Thanks Kurt but I like Norton 360 for the extras - particularly its password manager, plus a few other features. I typically pick up a 5 user version for around $50 and use it on my 3 installations here, my wife's laptop and my phone. It's never intrusive and I haven't had a virus in years, though it has caught a few on certain sites (not always the sort of sites you'd expect ).

[Micks]

Speaking of SSDs - I went to JB today and picked up another external 1TB Samsung T1 - $513.00 with the sales on.

That unit is very reasonable, looked on one site what actual drive do they use in that package? Is it a EVO240?