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i'll be honest, when i first tried a ssd for booting, i was amazed at the speed in comparison, but now i'm on nvme, i'm even more amazed.
i mean to be honest, the old mechanical drives have a a very good lifespan, and i think it should be consigned to the books for the good that it did , and the wonderful crunching and cranking they gave when failing
 
im still rocking the mx500 sata ssd's ive had for a few years and they have taken a hell of a lickin and they keep on ticken. when i rebuild this pc(see Triggers Broom) it will be on an nvme drive just to cut down on cabling. now wonder ms are pushing for solid state drives, modern windows runs like sh*t on a spinner.
 
im still rocking the mx500 sata ssd's ive had for a few years and they have taken a hell of a lickin and they keep on ticken. when i rebuild this pc(see Triggers Broom) it will be on an nvme drive just to cut down on cabling. now wonder ms are pushing for solid state drives, modern windows runs like sh*t on a spinner.
Triggers Broom............... the story of my computer building history
 
Windows needs an inverse version of ReadyBoost: moving your scratch files to a dedicated HDD.

With a large capacity SSD, I'm not worried about wear leveling since there's more blocks to spread writes across. Not true for a smaller, budget drives with crappier flash cells. And Windows doesn't have a wizard which monitors wear rates, and recommend when you should order a replacement drive.

The good part of HDD's is they make loud clicking noises when they're dying. SSD's just silently die. In the datacenter, I've seen too many fail from stupid firmware issues. That's you HPE & Samsung...
 
modern windows runs like sh*t on a spinner.
I noticed that too. For me this is Microsoft's incompetence or negligence in making an optimized OS. It's easier to demand that everyone have modern hardware so you can suck up resources like there's no tomorrow and no one will complain.

Win7/8.1 can do everything that Win10/11 does and doesn't have these problems with hard drives.

"Oh but they are old operating systems" Linux is there to show that it is possible to be a modern OS and be fast on not so modern machines.
 
Triggers Broom

triggers very nice for services , dlls, etc etc.
one more special trigger is to be removed if we tweak srdrepository database via sqlite3 then apply dism commandlet to remove appx packages :)
 
triggers very nice for services , dlls, etc etc.
one more special trigger is to be removed if we tweak srdrepository database via sqlite3 then apply dism commandlet to remove appx packages :)
you've lost me there, might aswell be klingon.
 
I noticed that too. For me this is Microsoft's incompetence or negligence in making an optimized OS. It's easier to demand that everyone have modern hardware so you can suck up resources like there's no tomorrow and no one will complain.

Microsoft - "Well, you have much more powerful cpu's and bigger faster storage so whats the problem?"
Clanger - "Need an sooper-pooter just to run the bloody operating system, put XP w7 and LTSC 1809 Task Manager screen grabs side by side to see the problem."
Microsoft - puts fingers in ears and goes "la la la la la".
Clanger - "the prosecution rests m'lord".
 
Microsoft's incompetence or negligence in making an optimized OS.
every so often this discussion reappears and we get one s--tshow OS after another and things havnt got better yet, the fact that things have got worse since XP tells you all you need to know about ms's direction so grab your tin of
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and get to work.
 
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one more special trigger is to be removed if we tweak srdrepository database via sqlite3 then apply dism commandlet to remove appx packages :)
you've lost me there, might aswell be klingon.

He's referring to a well known hack to uninstall System Apps on a live system, by updating the StateRepository-Machine database.
Since NTLite can remove those apps directly from images, we don't need it.
 
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