Recent content by Elohim

Understandable. My experience so far has been positive. I have the drive in my laptop, so losing power shouldn't be a huge issue - I have the battery to back me up :) As for RAM consumption, for me it has not been an issue. I use my laptop primarily for work and I have many applications open...

I only have 8GB in my laptop. I haven't had any issues with it. However, to see the benchmark numbers you asked about, you need Rapid mode enabled. Now, in real life, it may not be worth it. It does eat up some ram and there is a potential for data corruption. You might find the following link...

Enable Rapid Mode. Also check OS optimization. Mine is set to maximum capacity.

Yea, I would watch for things. It's really hard to say. Maybe you can check your drive for integrity errors - Sony might have a diagnostic check upon bootup.

I don't do anything :) I let Windows Defender do its thing. No AV installed - all it does is slow things down. My primary machine is my laptop, which I use for mostly work. I'd rather not waste my time at home maintaining my computer. I figure if you are smart about what you surf and download...

Do you have a 5400 RPM drive? Hard to say if your drive is the problem. I've heard others having issues with Chrome and Windows 8.1. May try using CCleaner and remove everything related to Chrome, uninstall it, and reinstall it. But it sounds like you have this issues elsewhere, file explorer...

Google Chrome will spawn a separate thread/process for each tab, so that isn't unusual. When the system is unresponsive, take a look at the task manager and see processes might be chewing up the disk. How fast is your hardrive? You can monitor disk usage with an app like Process Monitor, or use...

Samsung 840 Pro - 512GB New Samsung 840 Pro 512GB, Rapid Mode On, OS Optimized for High Performance Laptop - Samsung NP520U4C-A01UB, Core I5 Gen 3 Processor (2.5 GHz), 8GB Ram, Windows 8.1 Pro Update1 See my post here...

I had the same problem with my Samsung Laptop, NP520U4C-A01UB. I purchased a Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD and did a clean install to Windows 8.1 Pro Update 1. While optimizing my SSD with the Samsung Magician software, I change the OS Optimization to High Performance and enabled Rapid Mode. Did a...

This problem happens to me periodically. Turning off Fast Startup seems to work as suggested here and elsewhere, but the problem also seems to affect Hibernate. This means I must always shutdown my laptop completely without having this issue. It's really annoying and I wish it would be fixed.