A different solution is to create a custom script that scans the SSD/HDD/USB unique hardware ID and then search for the drive letter where that SSD/HDD/USB with ID is mounted and after finding the right letter, send that letter to your backup program of choice. The script is only few rows big and easy to understand. I use this on work and private PC. I personally use RoboCopy with mirror option. RoboCopy is integrated in all Windows versions.
I do have S-sync on my ToDo list but I just did not get around to do a video about it yet. :-/ I did test lowering the timer resolution once, and it had no impact on input / network delays. IMHO it is one of those placebo tools from the WinXP days that still come up today for some reason. 😅
@@BattleNonSense Regarding ToDo list: I believe some of us would appreciate a video diving onto Windows 10 optimization by turning off unneeded services and other features. I've done such thing in Windows7 and I did gain some RAM, but W10 comes with few times more services as W7 did.
For Windows users this is a really neat piece of software! Great job in finding and sharing this with us all, thank you very much for taking your time to do a video covering this software application :) If you're after recommendations in relation to storage drive's, backup, and other similar content then I have one that I'm sure will peak your interest, the "Zalman VE-300/Zalman VE-350/IODD 2531". The "IODD 2531" and it's "Zalman" branded equivalents are like a holy grail of multi-function external HDD/SSD caddie's. It can be a CD/USB/HDD/ISO/VMHD and many other devices all in one, and best of all you are not limited to any format of storage or capacity limit, so if you wanted to use a 16TB enterprise grade 2.5" SATA SSD then nothing is stopping you from doing that :) I highly recommend that you check it out, IODD are the original OEM of the device, Zalman units used to be "B-Grade" units of the same device sold for less money and running on less equipped firmware, these days the IODD & Zalman models cost about the same so just buy the IODD units for the better build quality and significantly better firmware :) Thanks for reading my comment, have a nice day and take care, all the best from one of your many viewers. Peace dude :)
Wow this was such a blast from the past, I used this once several years ago and completely forgot about it until your video, no wonder the soft rung a bell
Using this for pretty much 10y by now, mainly to assign A and B to USB drives and not to mess with my hotswap SATA drives/driveletters etc. - I got so many useful small tools running (to improve my work efficiency) that I still run my Win7 installation from 2013 ...
@surject I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but could you give a list of them or at least a summary of the best ones? Recently did a fresh install on my Windows 7 machine and really want to maximize it's functionality.
This may be a badly timed request but i had an idea about bfv a while back and haven't been able to test my theory because i don't have a lot of control over my network. Theory goes as such, dice has mistakenly set the buffer for spectator instead of some of the interpolation settings. Since spectator isn't actually a video buffer but rather a buffer on data like soldier and bullet info, players could be running around while on buffer and because the actual camera itself isn't buffered people won't notice it. This would explain a lot of 1 frame deaths and janky movement when at slightly higher pings. My ping average is about 60-75 and the game looks NOTHING like the smooth experience i see on other people clips and streams, also the game plays nothing like any of the previous games for me. It really feels like it's playing at 150 ping rather than 60-70 but if the game is setting the spectator buffer to your ping instead of the interp then you would in fact experience something like double the ping because the data is being delayed by your pings amount...on top of your ping. So yeah i need to test by comparing sub 30 ping with 60-80 ping and then the 60-80 with 80-90 ping....in theory if i'm right having slightly over 80 ping should actually play better than 60-80 because the compensation stuff is turned off after 80(could be wrong on that number maybe 90), playing at 85 ping would feel better than 70ms + 70ms mistaken buffer time . Not sure how to text this accurately and have no way to change my ping, and being aussie there's only low pings or extremely high pings.
Hi This is a wonderful video! However, I want to assign specific drive letters to each of my removable HDDs. I tried to enter pairs of lines like this: DeviceID= Letters= I repeated these lines for each disk. But now USBDLM mounts the disks in the same order that I defined in the text, and assigns the drive letter in that order. For example, my first HDD always gets G, the second gets E, and so on. It does not check for the DeviceID at all. What should I do? The help does not cover this use case.
I do my backup once a week with FreeFileSync where i can specific paths and instead of drive letters i can use the drive name for example [backup]\dokuments
that really depends on the use case and personal preference. Every 6 months I use Acronis True Image to do an offline backup of the OS Once per week I use AllwaySync to backup/sync pictures, documents, projects, etc. with my offline backup drive(s).
Speaking of backups; do you have any suggestion for a simple backup solution? I find that the Windows 10 one doesn't copy all I want, and 3rd party solutions usually encrypt into folders only the program can read. I just want one that clones the drive and can be accessed at all times on any PC.
Check out Rclone. It's insanely useful for syncing to clouds and drives and can even encrypt the files without a hassle so the cloud provider (such as Google or Microsoft) don't get your data.
I did some tests but it had no impact on the delays. I thought about doing a video but then even Microsoft came out with a blog explaining that current games won't be affected by this feature (due to buffering) and that this is "only" the first step of a larger WDDM rework.
Very informative video on the process, but for the love of holy backups, DO NOT USE flash drives to backup important long term data. These are not very stable and most of them can easily get corrupted by simply inserting or removing it from a faulty USB connector (or even just by not pushing/pulling them in/out fast enough). Portable Hard drives have better protection against these kind of dangers.
Windows will always remember which drive was assigned what letter. So if you have already plugged in a previously lettered drive, it will retain that drive letter everytime you plug it in. If you need to backup the same data to 2 separate drives, it's better to use 2 backup profiles/jobs with your backup software that correspond to the 2 different drive letters. This is because some backup software will 'remember' what content was backed up and won't get confused and don't require re-scanning your backed up data before running the job.
I use a network boot with clonezilla it auto stores backup on my nas and i could technically make my nas auto back it up to another location that i could move to offline location.
I guess you must have a lot of videos and stuff to backup, why don´t you just get a NAS and integrate some NAS drives as Lun´s to work on them and then have the NAS perform the Backup itself you can even set it up to clone the backup to a cloud or an external NAS in your friend's house. equals less work/maintenance.
hey i have a question can you pls help me i get in games like ark and paladins micro stutter i have a rtx 2070 super and a ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ram my temps are good pls help i see a spike every time in my frametime
tried lowering the graphic settings and then cap the FPS with RTSS at a value your PC can maintain 95% of the time? with a ryzen CPU you also want to use 3600MHz RAM (with low CL values) to get the InfinityFabric to run at 1800MHz. On my system that did help to eliminate stutters.
I mean how is it possible that new games like mw warzone on ultra and rdr2 work fine and a game like paladins where you dont even need a good pc has some micro frametime spikes
Hey i hope you dont mind my opinion. Macrium Reflect has a free version. I have restored complete Windows systems from a backup image a few times and it also does incremental backups if you want to backup often
@@Barmem Wine should do a pretty good job of that use case. But there are plenty of alternative native Linux apps nowadays. No harm in seeing how the other half lives once in a while. Not everything in Linux demands the terminal - you're given a choice depending on the distribution you choose.
Not once have I ever had a problem understanding his accent so I'm fairly certain it has nothing to do with his subscriber count. What an odd thing to attribute it to...
Not the content I subscribed for, but still content that is helpful. Thanks
I just re-found your channel after not seeing a video of you for over a year in my subbox, even tho I'm subbed.
Awesome content as always!
A different solution is to create a custom script that scans the SSD/HDD/USB unique hardware ID and then search for the drive letter where that SSD/HDD/USB with ID is mounted
and after finding the right letter, send that letter to your backup program of choice. The script is only few rows big and easy to understand. I use this on work and private PC.
I personally use RoboCopy with mirror option. RoboCopy is integrated in all Windows versions.
Hey chris plz make a video on riva tuner feature scanline sync and also on *resolution timer* "0.5 tweak"
I do have S-sync on my ToDo list but I just did not get around to do a video about it yet. :-/
I did test lowering the timer resolution once, and it had no impact on input / network delays. IMHO it is one of those placebo tools from the WinXP days that still come up today for some reason. 😅
@@BattleNonSense Even if its placebo, a video saying its placebo would spread true information as everyone is confused about it.
@@BattleNonSense Regarding ToDo list: I believe some of us would appreciate a video diving onto Windows 10 optimization by turning off unneeded services and other features. I've done such thing in Windows7 and I did gain some RAM, but W10 comes with few times more services as W7 did.
For Windows users this is a really neat piece of software!
Great job in finding and sharing this with us all, thank you very much for taking your time to do a video covering this software application :)
If you're after recommendations in relation to storage drive's, backup, and other similar content then I have one that I'm sure will peak your interest, the "Zalman VE-300/Zalman VE-350/IODD 2531".
The "IODD 2531" and it's "Zalman" branded equivalents are like a holy grail of multi-function external HDD/SSD caddie's. It can be a CD/USB/HDD/ISO/VMHD and many other devices all in one, and best of all you are not limited to any format of storage or capacity limit, so if you wanted to use a 16TB enterprise grade 2.5" SATA SSD then nothing is stopping you from doing that :)
I highly recommend that you check it out, IODD are the original OEM of the device, Zalman units used to be "B-Grade" units of the same device sold for less money and running on less equipped firmware, these days the IODD & Zalman models cost about the same so just buy the IODD units for the better build quality and significantly better firmware :)
Thanks for reading my comment, have a nice day and take care, all the best from one of your many viewers.
Peace dude :)
Wow this was such a blast from the past, I used this once several years ago and completely forgot about it until your video, no wonder the soft rung a bell
I got worried this was a click bait sponsor video. Thank for for yet another useful video.
Thanks for this, I was literally just about to look into setting up a backup harddrive this week and this seems super useful! :)
Using this for pretty much 10y by now, mainly to assign A and B to USB drives and not to mess with my hotswap SATA drives/driveletters etc. - I got so many useful small tools running (to improve my work efficiency) that I still run my Win7 installation from 2013 ...
@surject I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but could you give a list of them or at least a summary of the best ones? Recently did a fresh install on my Windows 7 machine and really want to maximize it's functionality.
Holy! crazy to see the troubles windows users have to go through
This may be a badly timed request but i had an idea about bfv a while back and haven't been able to test my theory because i don't have a lot of control over my network.
Theory goes as such, dice has mistakenly set the buffer for spectator instead of some of the interpolation settings.
Since spectator isn't actually a video buffer but rather a buffer on data like soldier and bullet info, players could be running around while on buffer and because the actual camera itself isn't buffered people won't notice it. This would explain a lot of 1 frame deaths and janky movement when at slightly higher pings.
My ping average is about 60-75 and the game looks NOTHING like the smooth experience i see on other people clips and streams, also the game plays nothing like any of the previous games for me.
It really feels like it's playing at 150 ping rather than 60-70 but if the game is setting the spectator buffer to your ping instead of the interp then you would in fact experience something like double the ping because the data is being delayed by your pings amount...on top of your ping.
So yeah i need to test by comparing sub 30 ping with 60-80 ping and then the 60-80 with 80-90 ping....in theory if i'm right having slightly over 80 ping should actually play better than 60-80 because the compensation stuff is turned off after 80(could be wrong on that number maybe 90), playing at 85 ping would feel better than 70ms + 70ms mistaken buffer time .
Not sure how to text this accurately and have no way to change my ping, and being aussie there's only low pings or extremely high pings.
Keep up the good work sir!
Great content!
Great Tool.
I love Link Shell Extension to deal with simlink without fuss. Made even simpler than Linux way.
Hi
This is a wonderful video!
However, I want to assign specific drive letters to each of my removable HDDs.
I tried to enter pairs of lines like this:
DeviceID=
Letters=
I repeated these lines for each disk.
But now USBDLM mounts the disks in the same order that I defined in the text, and assigns the drive letter in that order.
For example, my first HDD always gets G, the second gets E, and so on.
It does not check for the DeviceID at all.
What should I do?
The help does not cover this use case.
I do my backup once a week with FreeFileSync where i can specific paths and instead of drive letters i can use the drive name for example [backup]\dokuments
Awesome content! What backup software do you recommend? Just the Windows one?
that really depends on the use case and personal preference.
Every 6 months I use Acronis True Image to do an offline backup of the OS
Once per week I use AllwaySync to backup/sync pictures, documents, projects, etc. with my offline backup drive(s).
i used allway sync for a few years too, but i had some issues and needed real-time sync. i switched to syncovery in 2013 and i am very happy since.
Speaking of backups; do you have any suggestion for a simple backup solution? I find that the Windows 10 one doesn't copy all I want, and 3rd party solutions usually encrypt into folders only the program can read. I just want one that clones the drive and can be accessed at all times on any PC.
Nice. Thx for tutorial
Check out Rclone. It's insanely useful for syncing to clouds and drives and can even encrypt the files without a hassle so the cloud provider (such as Google or Microsoft) don't get your data.
Are we going to get an performance analysis on the new hardware accelerated scheduleing ?
I did some tests but it had no impact on the delays. I thought about doing a video but then even Microsoft came out with a blog explaining that current games won't be affected by this feature (due to buffering) and that this is "only" the first step of a larger WDDM rework.
Oh alright, thank you very much for that info ❤😊
Hardware accelerated scheduling is crashing some games.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider can crash.
GeForce 451.67 WHQL driver update note.
Do basically you emulate the Unix way of handling drives?
Very informative video on the process, but for the love of holy backups, DO NOT USE flash drives to backup important long term data. These are not very stable and most of them can easily get corrupted by simply inserting or removing it from a faulty USB connector (or even just by not pushing/pulling them in/out fast enough). Portable Hard drives have better protection against these kind of dangers.
so fstab but windows. Neat!
Yeah was gonna say, editing config files and mounting drives to directories sounds very familiar.
Do you do online backups as well? NAS or cloud?
I would never download software built by an unknown indie developer unless it’s legit recognized company and/or Microsoft certified.
K
Windows will always remember which drive was assigned what letter. So if you have already plugged in a previously lettered drive, it will retain that drive letter everytime you plug it in. If you need to backup the same data to 2 separate drives, it's better to use 2 backup profiles/jobs with your backup software that correspond to the 2 different drive letters. This is because some backup software will 'remember' what content was backed up and won't get confused and don't require re-scanning your backed up data before running the job.
I use a network boot with clonezilla it auto stores backup on my nas and i could technically make my nas auto back it up to another location that i could move to offline location.
hello. are you from switzerland?
Could you do a freesync setup guide like your nvidia g sync videos. I'm switching to an amd card soon but I have no idea how to use the amd software
Can you do video off the netcode for modern warfare warzone?
I guess you must have a lot of videos and stuff to backup, why don´t you just get a NAS and integrate some NAS drives as Lun´s to work on them and then have the NAS perform the Backup itself you can even set it up to clone the backup to a cloud or an external NAS in your friend's house. equals less work/maintenance.
cool find, thanks for sharing .o.
Just build an Unraid box so you don't have to deal with all this unnecessary hassle and inconvenience.
If you not have too much hard drives: Just use X for 1st one and Y for second
Hello man, please make a network analysis video for Valorant. There is something very wrong with that game at the moment. Thanks :)
Please make Warzone netcode analysis!
hey i have a question can you pls help me i get in games like ark and paladins micro stutter i have a rtx 2070 super and a ryzen 5 3600 and 16 gb ram my temps are good pls help i see a spike every time in my frametime
tried lowering the graphic settings and then cap the FPS with RTSS at a value your PC can maintain 95% of the time?
with a ryzen CPU you also want to use 3600MHz RAM (with low CL values) to get the InfinityFabric to run at 1800MHz. On my system that did help to eliminate stutters.
i did cap my fps i think i have 3000mhz but it doesnt stutter in rdr2 on ultra and on mw warzone only on paladins ark and the crew 2 why is that
I mean how is it possible that new games like mw warzone on ultra and rdr2 work fine and a game like paladins where you dont even need a good pc has some micro frametime spikes
@@BattleNonSense and i even tried paladins on the lowest settings and it still happens with the frametime lags
@Nismo i am not running any sync and in fullscreen
Which tool for backup do you recommend? For different types of backups.
Hey i hope you dont mind my opinion. Macrium Reflect has a free version. I have restored complete Windows systems from a backup image a few times and it also does incremental backups if you want to backup often
Grumble grumble Linux udev rules come out of the box
call me when linux will run any win apps and wont require programming knowledge to actually use it
@@Barmem Wine should do a pretty good job of that use case. But there are plenty of alternative native Linux apps nowadays. No harm in seeing how the other half lives once in a while. Not everything in Linux demands the terminal - you're given a choice depending on the distribution you choose.
This video was sponsored by the RUclips thumbs-up button.
I use usb hard drive's and make back ups of the usb hard drive's to cd/dvds just in case ha.
i clone my entire OS to a HDD with paragon, so I don't have this problem :)
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE .msi. It does not work. .zip file only.
Valorant ??
*laughs in home server*
just buy a nas...
Hi
This kind of silly windows sht is the reason I'm glad i switched to Linux tbh
There would be more subscribers if his speaks with less accent.
I provide subtitles for those who have issues with my accent.
There’s nothing wrong with your accent.
@@BattleNonSense Okay. That's diligent.
Not once have I ever had a problem understanding his accent so I'm fairly certain it has nothing to do with his subscriber count. What an odd thing to attribute it to...
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".