Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10
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Mongrel
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That's bonkers in the best way
Andy_Ross
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Well, new board and video card in place, new 2tb hard drive installed and converted from MBR to GPT (an adventure in itself, nothing ever goes the way it's supposed to, I did this so if it all goes wrong I still have my full Windows 10 disk to fall back on)
Windows 11 update now downloading
Windows 11 update now downloading
catsmate
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Magnetic or SSD.
Andy_Ross
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Magnetic.
I toyed with the idea of an ssd but it will require some restructuring of where I keep things on the disk, so I have divided the 2t drive in to 2 partitions, one for windows and the other for documents. I have a vast number of 3d and cad files.
I may go to an ssd as a windows boot disk and maybe save games but I want to keep the option of booting to the other disk. I don't trust an ssd as proper storage.
the board has an M.2 slot so I will put the ssd in that when I get it.
The new disk and board are SATA 3 so faster than the old one which was just SATA 2plugging an ssd in to SATA doesn't really give much of a speed improvement so I never bothered before but the M.2 is considerably faster.
I toyed with the idea of an ssd but it will require some restructuring of where I keep things on the disk, so I have divided the 2t drive in to 2 partitions, one for windows and the other for documents. I have a vast number of 3d and cad files.
I may go to an ssd as a windows boot disk and maybe save games but I want to keep the option of booting to the other disk. I don't trust an ssd as proper storage.
the board has an M.2 slot so I will put the ssd in that when I get it.
The new disk and board are SATA 3 so faster than the old one which was just SATA 2plugging an ssd in to SATA doesn't really give much of a speed improvement so I never bothered before but the M.2 is considerably faster.
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Mongrel
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Shifting games to an NVME drive makes them load considerably faster
Andy_Ross
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Not worried about the actual game loading, loading saves is what I would want speeded up, plus fast travel times in some games will be much faster to load up the destination.
Where game load times will make a difference is when I am working on a Mod rather than playing. Loading Skyrim to check a change or addition to a mod then quitting and re opening the mod in Creation Kit is tedious. You can't have the mod file open in the CK and the game at the same time.
Where game load times will make a difference is when I am working on a Mod rather than playing. Loading Skyrim to check a change or addition to a mod then quitting and re opening the mod in Creation Kit is tedious. You can't have the mod file open in the CK and the game at the same time.
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arthwollipot
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Just had to check, but yeah, that's what I've got, and it really does.
plague311
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I picked up a little Dell PC to act as my new virtualization server, and running an nvme vs a spinning disk for that is a massive difference.
Thanks. Intrigued. Can you explain a bit more about this? What sort of file backup are you talking about?
Oops, I see I saw this earlier. But when i go to Check for Updates there's no link or mention of it.Yes, I looked into that myself.
It only costs $30.
It gives you Windows 10 security updates till October 2026.
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows
Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates programme See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.support.microsoft.com
Didactylos
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Something with onedrive. I didn't need to change anything to get the extension, just try it might be the same for you.
Wudang
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Andy_Ross
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After a couple of days of disk thrashing as Windows did a catch up with updates and search did it's indexing everything is running nicely.
I have noticed WIn 11 is a lot easier on the disks than 10. There was always some system process churning away, now the PC is nice and quiet like my laptop.
I have noticed WIn 11 is a lot easier on the disks than 10. There was always some system process churning away, now the PC is nice and quiet like my laptop.
Blue Mountain
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At the risk of another derail, Linux has always been like this.: relatively easy on the disc I/Os.
"People who do not know Unix are doomed to reinvent it—poorly."
Wudang
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Plenty of other Linux threads, mate. As I said I've used BSD, AIX, HP/UX, and various Linux back to the 90's - SLES, Mint, currently Ubuntu Mate. The 80's was mainly MVS, VM/CMS and OS/2. My first windows was NT 3.4 Server and Workstation. Uugh
Although the migration from windows 10 to 11 is trivial for some, continued support and/or migration is an issue for others.
Although the migration from windows 10 to 11 is trivial for some, continued support and/or migration is an issue for others.
catsmate
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I have a boxed set of 5.25" NT 3.1 installation diskette around somewhere....
Wudang
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Bury them at midnight at a crossroads with a stake through them.
novaphile
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Probably a big box.
I can remember doing an NT install with a huge set of 1.44Mb discs.
I think it may have been the last version that could be installed from floppies.
(I just had a peek online and NT 3.51 was on 35 3 1/2 inch discs.)
