Hello!
This is an issue for ages. Apparently windows writes zeros by default for all allocated files. Particularly noticable, when downloading with bittorrent, where the app hangs and the hard drive becomes unusable for quite a while.
But it's also a problem more generally. Any such allocations will double the wear on HDDs and particularly SSDs, apart from taking twice as much time.
Any way that I can set windows to don't write zeroes when allocating files?
This is an issue for ages. Apparently windows writes zeros by default for all allocated files. Particularly noticable, when downloading with bittorrent, where the app hangs and the hard drive becomes unusable for quite a while.
But it's also a problem more generally. Any such allocations will double the wear on HDDs and particularly SSDs, apart from taking twice as much time.
Any way that I can set windows to don't write zeroes when allocating files?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Ryzen 5 1600
- Motherboard
- Asus Prime B350-PLUS
- Memory
- G.SKILL Trident Z 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz F4-3000C15D-16GTZB
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (Asus ENGTS450)
- PSU
- 500w FSP