How to Optimize Your Hard Drive For Increased Speed and Performance
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- How to Optimize Your Hard Drive For Increased Speed and Performance
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Optimizing you mechanical hard drive with HD Tune using short stroke can boost speed and performance of that hard drive. This can be useful for people who store games on a mechanical hard drive.
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Good information about optimizing mechanical drives. Thanks Brian!
Glad it was helpful!
This will also make defragmentation a bit faster, correct?
Interesting. I have noticed when doing file transfers on a hard drive that the transfer rate fluctuates a lot depending on the size and number of files you're moving.
My compromise, on a recent refurbish of an old PC that would have Windows and probably not much else, was to create a shorter partition on the 160GB I was using (so the MFT is halfway up the short partition, and in the faster bit) and then extend the partition using Minitool (not sure if other methods would relocate MFT, but remembered reading it previously as a "move" the MFT trick).
So, when it's in the low usage state, it still hasn't crossed over the MFT, so will have faster seek and faster MFT than if the whole drive was originally selected, but the space is available if needed - OK, it will probably be worse than default if it gets to near full.
Short stroking a drive is not a new thing, I remember a DEC VAX drive that had a specific fast but half capacity mode, and my reaction was "fast, I like", "half capacity, I don't like".
Of course, with partitions, you do have the option to split the drive and put important stuff in the fast bit, and relegate other things to the remainder.
PS. Will have to try HDTune, I've got so used to using HDTach in compatibility mode, and not sure if that saps any performance
Short stroking goes way back.
Good old days are here again! Nice to read about optimizing HDD's, and it is also nice to see that Windows 10 finally does a lot of the job in the background. (Error correction, Defragmenting). I've been in the computer business since a 10MB drive was big, but today I've got 5TB at home. If asked, I would recommend NVME (or SSD) for Windows and programs and HDD's for data. Partitioning HDD's into sweet spots will certainly speed up your access time, and I got to try. Thanks again Britec!
You're welcome
Surely you are just setting a partition on the outer area of the disk where it is moving more quickly vs the inner part that is moving more slowly. This will create fast and slow partitions with the slow one performing below average whilst the fast one performs above average.
There is software to measure it.
Good job it was cool just to watch you do it an see the bench mark results. thanks.
Glad you liked it!
That HDD is very usefull,because i could storage movies in HD and don't pay Netflix,Amazon Disney and other business like that,pay for example a movie as "Predator 1987" in Apple TV for 7 bucks is a shame,thanks good video.
Is it required for the HDD to be formatted?
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This is a nice to know video, just ran the benchmark on 2 seagates, sshd and hdd, in both of them it seems that the first 20% to 30% would be acceptable to me as the first partition.
Do a video on Using Nimbus data DC 100 or Intel's 1000TB SSD in ASUS GL553VE LAPTOP.
Love your content, keep up the good work
Thanks, will do!
At 3:42 the video pretty much becomes useless because the options talked about don’t actually exist
Great video Brian as always very very useful take care
noice but u forgot that u can shrink the volume and the hard can read/write faster ( for these hards that have 400+GB or 1+ TB
how to do this
Wrd
First time I learned about this.
Would this "work" with external hard drives too?
EDIT: Note for future self, the keywords are "hard drive short stroke"
yes...
but not with a solid state drive, SSD
very useful video I didn't know about this before.
Glad it was helpful!
Love your videos 😃. Let me try this today, to gain some performance. 🤗
Have fun!
@@Britec09 Worked like a charm. 😉
My harddrive (WD RED 6TB) is slowing down a lot. When i transfer around 10 gb it starts at 1+ gb but then it slows down to around 140-250 MB. How can I make it faster?
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Thank You very much
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What if you only have one hdd in the system. I have a old laptop with a single slow hdd in it and I don’t think you can do this method to it
Mine does not show unallocated, what should I do?
I remember watching a Linus video like 6 7 years ago about this topic...
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.
Thank you very much 👍
You are very welcome
Are you showing us that the first 200Gig partition is where you would put your games and 'fast data' programs? and then the remaining 5.8Tb partition is just a slowish drive for STORAGE use only ???
It wasn't really made clear what to do with the remaining 5.8Tb partition....
+1
Storage only. DONT install games or programs in there. Move movies, music, or videos.
How does this effect my " Hybrid" Platter drive?
So what would I install to the partitioned smaller drive?
I accidentally deleted my optic drivers. I have W7-pro. How can I recover them? Can you help? Thanks.
Free home for any spare 6TB drives,any takers?
Does this also for for usb drives? Or is it only for old school HDDs?
Please run another speed test on the new 200 GB partition to test its speed thanks
I did run a speed test on the same drive.
This also seem to increase CPU usage than before.
It's been showing no drive found
Mine just gets an read error
So if we have a 2 TB HDD, we should make 10 200 GB partitions?
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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Is minimum of 0.1 mb/s a bad sign?
Could you also tell about linux OS for HDDD
Do you need 2 drives to do this ?
Can i ask you a question?
Hard to answer questions in comments, better place to ask is my discord server
Can't see myself splitting 6 x 16 TB drives into partitions of 200MB ... the first drive would exhaust the possible drive letters of my system all by itself!
The comparison between the two tests seem somewhat biased as one was taken on the whole drive (on the left) while the other was taken only on the newly created partition (on the right).
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I have a 2TB Toshiba external HDD, now its full (98%), and now it having some issues while reading/using, it takes so much time to open, some times it says not responding, can you help me here please?
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.
Does partition size really decides the performance ?🤔
I can't understand clearly.. !
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.
I don't understand. So you just created 2 drives, an optimized 200 GB and an 1800 GB unoptimized disk?
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.
can you put some games there?
You can use the whole drive
HD Tune it is not secure
what do you mean lol
Try whitelisting it in your antivirus.
Well i never.....Thanks.
You're welcome.
Plz help 🙏
Interesting software
Thanks
Hard drives are stupidly slow. We just need to accept that. They are only useful for storage of your personal data, photo/video collection and old games (games that aren't hindered by the slow speed).
I got a server grade HGST he6 Helios drive and that one only does 200MB/s. Absolutely pathetic in-comparison to a 7GB/s NVME drive.
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.
Can I get a shout-out please
shout out to who?
@@Britec09 to me
This is Fake Because we need to pay for the software!
Did you see me pay? no, its a trial
@@Britec09 well there was no trail on mine
Another good way to optimize your hard drive is to stop using Windows and use Linux.....hint hint...lol. My hard drive performs a whole lot better in Linux than in windows...Linux yeahhhh...Windows...booooo