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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... eternal USB dock. That's probably why it took so long :-( ----EXTERNAL USB dock :-( Although "eternal" describes it well, LOL! |
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SC Tom wrote:
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... eternal USB dock. That's probably why it took so long :-( ----EXTERNAL USB dock :-( Although "eternal" describes it well, LOL! I think I liked the first one better. The second will never catch on. "Eternal" makes it sound like you got your moneys worth. Macrium is capable of resizing the right-most partition. That's if you try and do the disk in one shot, as intended. But, Macrium also allows drag and drop (a partition at a time). You define your source disk. You define your destination disk. But then, you click and hold a partition from the first disk, and place it on the second disk. Next, click the "Next" button, then the "Back" button. Highlight the target partition again, and there is a resize dialog you can use too. You can set the alignment to legacy MSDOS alignment, or you can set it to Win7+ 1MB alignment. You can also move the slider and set the size to bigger or smaller as desired. All the way down to 227GB if you wanted. Wnat that mode of operation doesn't do, is correct the boot-ability of the resulting disk. You can use the Macrium Rescue disc "Boot Repair" item to perform that function later. Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... SC Tom wrote: "SC Tom" wrote in message ... eternal USB dock. That's probably why it took so long :-( ----EXTERNAL USB dock :-( Although "eternal" describes it well, LOL! I think I liked the first one better. The second will never catch on. "Eternal" makes it sound like you got your moneys worth. Macrium is capable of resizing the right-most partition. That's if you try and do the disk in one shot, as intended. But, Macrium also allows drag and drop (a partition at a time). You define your source disk. You define your destination disk. But then, you click and hold a partition from the first disk, and place it on the second disk. Next, click the "Next" button, then the "Back" button. Highlight the target partition again, and there is a resize dialog you can use too. You can set the alignment to legacy MSDOS alignment, or you can set it to Win7+ 1MB alignment. You can also move the slider and set the size to bigger or smaller as desired. All the way down to 227GB if you wanted. Wnat that mode of operation doesn't do, is correct the boot-ability of the resulting disk. You can use the Macrium Rescue disc "Boot Repair" item to perform that function later. Good to know for future reference when my license expires on PartWiz (I don't plan on renewing it a year from now). Thanks for clinic :-) |
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SC Tom wrote:
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... snip As suggested by Bill and Larc, I got an SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1GB) and replaced my system HDD with it yesterday afternoon. I must admit, the boot time is pretty impressive, although that's never been a problem for me- I turn it on, make coffee, and it's all finished booting before I get back to it. Now, it's almost through booting up before I can get my robe on and leave the room :-) Congratulations on your "new system"! You'll probably be able to get at least two years out of it, if you choose to. Then maybe buy another 1GB storage device when you upgrade your mainboard (if you need that much storage). Your "migration" process was outside my experience--I never tried to do that, since I have always used OEM Windows licenses. Maybe if the money is burning a hole in your pocket, you can look at new monitors? : ) 27" seems to be the new norm (mine is "only" 24")-but I remember when my 19" monitor was "large" (but I think I prefer its "older-style" proportions). |
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:32:59 -0500, Bill wrote:
Your "migration" process was outside my experience--I never tried to do that, Assuming prior hardware provisions for compatibility are established and tested, the binary stream is a directly native contingent to what underlying OS platform supportively will launch the operation. Operations may be either Linux and Windows based, among other possibilities of free or commercial establishment. Over a difference of two Windows OS platforms, instances range from a 90 seconds' transfer in one, from a marginal imposition of an "expanded" binary state, to one operationally then functional, and twice that on the other. Not especially as fast numerically perhaps to suggest, overall, than for a supportive efficacy that benefits an OS for one isolated, generally in practise, from all added stipends of data being unnecessarily placed within it, where in point better to place elsewhere for OS links to alternative data sets that occur from other discrete partitions, e.g. conclusively relegated for nonessential constituents to a subsequent load to impose upon the binary-streaming OS process. Mainstream 1T SDDs at present availability, being also adequate to modest storage considerations may avail to smaller SSDs, yet serving for an added convenience when adapted individually to OS transfer manipulations;- Among practises to the adaptable boot-arbitration framework and, again, certainly within precepts to OS regeneration processes. |
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"Bill" wrote in message ... SC Tom wrote: "SC Tom" wrote in message ... snip As suggested by Bill and Larc, I got an SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1GB) and replaced my system HDD with it yesterday afternoon. I must admit, the boot time is pretty impressive, although that's never been a problem for me- I turn it on, make coffee, and it's all finished booting before I get back to it. Now, it's almost through booting up before I can get my robe on and leave the room :-) Congratulations on your "new system"! You'll probably be able to get at least two years out of it, if you choose to. Then maybe buy another 1GB storage device when you upgrade your mainboard (if you need that much storage). Your "migration" process was outside my experience--I never tried to do that, since I have always used OEM Windows licenses. Maybe if the money is burning a hole in your pocket, you can look at new monitors? : ) 27" seems to be the new norm (mine is "only" 24")-but I remember when my 19" monitor was "large" (but I think I prefer its "older-style" proportions). Thanks! Mine is "only" a 24" also, but plenty big for me. If I went any larger, I have to either get a bigger desk for all my stuff, or mount it high on the wall to be above my stuff (including my laptop) :-) |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "SC Tom" wrote in message ... snip Pretty decent speeds, especially with Rapid mode enabled :-) https://postimg.cc/3k0c9fTY I didn't leave it enabled- seems a bit much for me. Read a few horror stories online of what could happen if the power goes out (I have a UPS, so no real problem for me). I just don't need something that could become flakey. |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "SC Tom" wrote in message ... snip Pretty decent speeds, especially with Rapid mode enabled :-) https://postimg.cc/3k0c9fTY I didn't leave it enabled- seems a bit much for me. Read a few horror stories online of what could happen if the power goes out (I have a UPS, so no real problem for me). I just don't need something that could become flakey. The power going out case, could affect anyone. Windows uses a fairly large System Write cache. A person with an NVMe, the write queue should drain rapidly. By comparison, HDD are slugs. My concern is more with HDD. On the other computer, I could lose as much as 5GB of writes if the power were to go off. The machine is on a UPS, and I would be shutting it down manually (as two machines are connected to the UPS, and only one of them is auto-shutdown via serial/USB cable). I would have to wait until the LED had mostly stopped flashing, to push things by doing a shutdown. As far as I know, it's smart enough to spend the 50 seconds and write out the 5GB of stuff, before doing the final shutdown step. If I didn't have a UPS, it could potentially be a mess (unclean shutdown). I assume on small file transfers, that queue could be full of small files. The journal can help roll back any uncommitted fragments. But anything you thought was copied (copy process completed, dialog gone), might not be copied. I don't really think of the System Write cache as a benefit. An example, is if the destination is a USB stick that doesn't have a LED. You can't tell when the writes have stopped... You can check Task Manager for memory usage, but that's only a rough guess if you don't know what the "drained" number should be. The System Write Cache is booked against RAM, and System Write Cache can compete with other program usage of RAM. There is even one scenario on Windows 10, where the System Write Cache can lock up the computer (resource conflict). Paul |
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On 12/17/2020 12:30 PM, Larc wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:26:25 -0500, "SC Tom" wrote: | I decided to give an SSD a chance on my current PC (I haven't bought the | components yet for my "wish" PC). I can't get an NVMe since my current MB | doesn't have an M.2 slot for it. I ordered a 1GB Samsung 860 EVO. Has good | reviews, and is plenty big enough to hold everything that's on my HDD. | I own Acronis True Image- I should be able to clone from one to the other | with that. Worse comes to worst, I'll just create an image of my HDD, remove | it, put the SSD in, and restore that image to it. Been there, done that with | HDD's; can't imagine it being too different with SSD's. | I also have older free versions of Macrium Reflect and MTPW; I guess I could | download the newest and make bootable CD/DVD from them (that's how I used my | old versions, and my newer ATI). NVMe SSD is much faster than SATA SSD. Samsung 970 EVO Plus sequential read/write speeds are up to 3500/3300 MBs per second compared to 550/520 MBs for the Samsung 860 EVO. I haven't had any luck using an image file to transfer a system drive from HDD to SATA SSD or from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD. Since they are different types of drives, they seem to need the clone option to deal with those differences. I've used the free versions of Acronis many times with no problem. |
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On 12/20/2020 7:52 AM, SC Tom wrote:
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... snip As suggested by Bill and Larc, I got an SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1GB) and replaced my system HDD with it yesterday afternoon. I must admit, the boot time is pretty impressive, although that's never been a problem for me- I turn it on, make coffee, and it's all finished booting before I get back to it. Now, it's almost through booting up before I can get my robe on and leave the room :-) Transferring my OS over to the SSD proved to be a little more difficult than I originally thought. I installed the latest free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard and saw the "Migrate OS to SSD/HD Wizard" and figured that would be pretty cool. But when I went to use it, I was informed that it was only available in the paid (subscription) version. So I forked over the US$59 and DL'd and installed it. Hooked up my SSD, started the transfer, and after ~3.5 hours, it was done. Shut down the PC, disconnected my C: HDD, plugged in the SSD, turned it on, and it booted right up, no problem . . . until about 3 minutes in. Suddenly, the dreaded BSOD popped up with a "Attempted switch from DPC" error. OK, what the hell is this? Did a search from my laptop and found out it could be most anything from a driver issue to an antivirus issue. Rebooted and have had no issue since (knock on wood). The system seems to more responsive now than before. My video editor is quicker and smoother, so that's a definite plus. The games that I have that are high-def and huge start up quicker, and the game play is much more responsive and smoother. So, all in all, I would that installing an SSD is a definite plus and improvement over my HDD. side note- I registered my SSD and looked at the Download section and didn't see much of anything other than Samsung Magician, which seems to be mainly a maintenance and information app. But, searching later on through Google, I found out that Samsung has a System Migration app. Of course, that was after I had already bought Partition Wizard. Could have accomplished the same results for free if I hadn't been in such a hurry :-( Thanks for everyone's input. I'll put off buying the new components until I get tired of this set up :-) Stepping to NVME makes a similar difference. |
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