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SMR is ungodly slow as a NTFS Windows boot/system HDD, compared to a regular HDD.
by fuzzfactor 3y ago
SMR is ungodly slow as a NTFS Windows boot/system HDD, compared to a regular HDD.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoWhy would you use an HDD as a boot drive in this day and age anyway? SSDs are cheap (around €10 for the cheapest 128GB drives where I live [1]). [1] https://tweakers.net/solid-state-drives/vergelijken/#filter:PcvBCsIwEATQf9nzCts0TZp8gOA5R_FQklUjoQlJFVH8d6uIt-HNzBP47tM1cHDnXBrYfU9SoJbUY0dqkGhIqjUK06HpRxRy1N9GoSZlDghxvnFdPnfHif0S8wz2OKXGCLkGrtvIKYCFUuOlwQ9drstqU_N_Kex3627TIZTpxC4-GOxArzc https://tweakers.net/solid-state-drives/vergelijken/#filter:...
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>Why would you use an HDD as a boot drive in this day and age anyway? I didn't purchase it but thought it would have similar boot times to a regular HDD, which is only a few seconds more of a delay than a SATA SSD. Nope this was one of the 8TB WD SMR's and takes about 10 times as long to boot compared to regular HDD. Still that's only a few minutes total and it's easy to just boot a few minutes earlier before I want to use that particular PC. Once Windows is initially loaded into memory (against upstream return data being slowly written to the SMR) it mostly works like normal after that. Plus when you've got terabytes there's plenty of room for a number of 64GB partitions to install various bootable OS's in, without hardly compromising the major amount of free space you have left over for bulk storage in the large partition(s).