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Mr P Hucker
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mikey wrote: Peter Hucker

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Just had the computer with the 80GB drive fill up!  24 CPU cores and a GPU running 6 projects, including large stuff like LHC.  But I found the real hog - hibernation file!  Since it has 36GB of RAM and 80GB of disk, the hibernation file is a considerable portion of the disk.  Disabled hibernation in the command prompt and deleted the file.  That's better. 

You KNOW I said WOO HOO, but then my happiness sank as I always turned that off, never used it even on laptops so it wasn't that for me. :-)))

I think you actually have to issue the command in the command prompt, then delete the file, or it stays there.

I also deleted other pointless crap, all the programs supplied with Windows I don't use like Skype.  I had great fun in the Programs and Features section, or whatever it's renamed to now.

You can also engage compression on the drive - I did that with my main machine which has a 0.5TB SSD.  I'm going to upgrade it to an NVME drive but I can't decide whether to pay £100 to double the size of the system SSD, or pay £400 to double that and the 2TB rotary drive to make them both faster.

Treesize is an excellent tool to see where it's all hiding.  It's the kinda thing that should be part of the filesystem GUI!

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Peter Hucker wrote: mikey

Peter Hucker wrote:

mikey wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:

Just had the computer with the 80GB drive fill up!  24 CPU cores and a GPU running 6 projects, including large stuff like LHC.  But I found the real hog - hibernation file!  Since it has 36GB of RAM and 80GB of disk, the hibernation file is a considerable portion of the disk.  Disabled hibernation in the command prompt and deleted the file.  That's better. 

You KNOW I said WOO HOO, but then my happiness sank as I always turned that off, never used it even on laptops so it wasn't that for me. :-)))

I think you actually have to issue the command in the command prompt, then delete the file, or it stays there.

I also deleted other pointless crap, all the programs supplied with Windows I don't use like Skype.  I had great fun in the Programs and Features section, or whatever it's renamed to now.

I did some of that today too on a VERY slow dual xeon pc, it shouldn't be as slow as it is, it wasn't before the latest Win10 update so I may have to spend some time on it this week to figure out what's wrong. I back all my Windows pc's every month so have one from before the latest updates. I also have one from July on another drive, I do 6 months at a time on each of 2 drives and put the one I'm not using in a drawer. It's a 240gb SSD and is less than half full.

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You can also engage compression on the drive - I did that with my main machine which has a 0.5TB SSD.  I'm going to upgrade it to an NVME drive but I can't decide whether to pay £100 to double the size of the system SSD, or pay £400 to double that and the 2TB rotary drive to make them both faster.

I think it depends  on what else the pc is used for, as a Boinc only machine it doesn't need anywhere near that size drives, but if you do other stuff too it could make sense. In the machines I do something else one I have one 240gb or 500gb ssd drive as the C: drive and then a 2nd drive as my 'data' drive for other things. I do install the programs on the C: drive to make things faster though, I also do have a 500gb ssd drive as my data drive in one pc but the rest use platter style sata drives. My backup drives are platter syle sata drives too.

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Treesize is an excellent tool to see where it's all hiding.  It's the kinda thing that should be part of the filesystem GUI! 

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mikey wrote: I did some of

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I did some of that today too on a VERY slow dual xeon pc, it shouldn't be as slow as it is, it wasn't before the latest Win10 update so I may have to spend some time on it this week to figure out what's wrong. I back all my Windows pc's every month so have one from before the latest updates. I also have one from July on another drive, I do 6 months at a time on each of 2 drives and put the one I'm not using in a drawer. It's a 240gb SSD and is less than half full.

In what way is it slow?  Is the CPU messing around doing stupid things you could disable - check the task manager.  Or is the disk heavily used?  Is something consuming all the RAM?

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I think it depends  on what else the pc is used for, as a Boinc only machine it doesn't need anywhere near that size drives, but if you do other stuff too it could make sense. In the machines I do something else one I have one 240gb or 500gb ssd drive as the C: drive and then a 2nd drive as my 'data' drive for other things. I do install the programs on the C: drive to make things faster though, I also do have a 500gb ssd drive as my data drive in one pc but the rest use platter style sata drives. My backup drives are platter syle sata drives too.

 

For Boinc I give it whatever's lying around, except for one which was causing me problems with crashing, so much rebooting made me insane with how long it took, so I gave it a small 2nd hand SSD to cheer it up.

My main PC I also use for games, internet, and TV.  So a large data drive with stuff I've recorded, and an SSD to make the games and software start quickly.  One or both are getting upgraded to NVME when I have the cash, but I'm buying parrots and aviary panels just now.  Somebody heard what I was typing, she's flown onto my shoulder.

 

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Peter Hucker wrote: mikey

Peter Hucker wrote:

mikey wrote:

I did some of that today too on a VERY slow dual xeon pc, it shouldn't be as slow as it is, it wasn't before the latest Win10 update so I may have to spend some time on it this week to figure out what's wrong. I back all my Windows pc's every month so have one from before the latest updates. I also have one from July on another drive, I do 6 months at a time on each of 2 drives and put the one I'm not using in a drawer. It's a 240gb SSD and is less than half full.

In what way is it slow?  Is the CPU messing around doing stupid things you could disable - check the task manager.  Or is the disk heavily used?  Is something consuming all the RAM?

Not a clue it's just horribly slow, I will have time later this week to check it out.

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