Subj : Old Iron
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jan 06 2021 05:46:00

I've got an old Dell Precision T3400, Core 2 Quad CPU (upgraded from a Core 
2 Duo), and an Intel RAID card with 2x2TB drives in a RAID 1 array. I re- 
installed Windows 10 a year ago, and it's been slowing down and annoying me 
to no end, especially since I'm getting used to NVMe SSDs on my work 
machines.

My hard drive was filling up, I was down to 25% free. I went on a house- 
cleaning spree, deleted 6000 duplicate photos and bad photos, old ISO images 
and temp files, and moved some data to another 2TB (non-mirrored) drive. 
That got both volumes down to 40% full. I ran MyDefrag, a defrag tool that 
I've used over the years, and used the "monthly defrag" setting, which 
arranges the files by access time and leaves space for them to grow in the 
middle of the disk.

Bootup times compared to an NVMe are still slow, but It's significantly 
faster now, and doesn't feel laggy by comparison to the NVMe laptops I have. 

Check out MyDefrag if you're still running on spinning drives. It might be 
worth a shot to speed up your system.


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