My Alienware X51 is a very good all-round performer, and has been really nippy ever since I fitted a Samsung 840 SSD in it as the primary drive between 3 and 4 months ago...... I altered a load of settings to prevent any damage to it, as per a load of reputable sites and sources linked from TomsHardware. For example, I disabled defragmentation, and so on.
I have realised after all this time - only since my secondary HDD on its own started to slow down and take twice as long to load photos and videos for example - that I may have applied the new settings for both the SSD AND the HDD. Obviously I need to keep the defrag settings, etc, etc, as they were for the HDD. How do I know if these were altered, and how do I optimise and take care of this secondary 1TB HDD? Surely separate settings entirely are needed compared to my SSD, which still runs like a pro.
I have realised after all this time - only since my secondary HDD on its own started to slow down and take twice as long to load photos and videos for example - that I may have applied the new settings for both the SSD AND the HDD. Obviously I need to keep the defrag settings, etc, etc, as they were for the HDD. How do I know if these were altered, and how do I optimise and take care of this secondary 1TB HDD? Surely separate settings entirely are needed compared to my SSD, which still runs like a pro.
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