Brink said:That 6% could be from the page file and/or restore points that wouldn't be defragged.
I will look at Intel as well. I need minimum 500 gigs. Games these days are 50 gig installs, not 20 as in the past because they support 4K monitors and high res textures. 840 pro retail is $259 for 250 gigs. I see all kinds of models for Intel, starting at $245 for 240 gigs. I pay Canadian prices because of course we are very nice people so it's ok to hit us with higher prices. We just smile. There is no significant difference between retail and OEM, right?
Also RAID on any HOME computer is a WASTE of time -- RAID 0 can be better achieved using SPANNED VOLUMES in Windows - no hardware / software necessary - simply convert to GPT and dynamic disks and you can span as many as you like (all different sizes too) in the aggregation.
Wikipedia - Standard RAID LevelsA RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) without parity information for speed. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a large logical disk out of two or more physical ones.
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RAID 0 is also used in some computer gaming systems where performance is desired and data integrity is not very important. However, real-world tests with computer games have shown that RAID-0 performance gains are minimal, although some desktop applications will benefit. Another article examined these claims and concludes: "Striping does not always increase performance (in certain situations it will actually be slower than a non-RAID setup), but in most situations it will yield a significant improvement in performance."
Wikipedia - Spanned VolumeA spanned volume is a formatted partition which data is stored on more than one hard disk, yet appears as one volume.
Spanned volumes are a non-RAID drive architecture, and may be implemented in hardware or software; they may be referred to as Concatenation, SPAN, BIG, or JBOD, though this latter is ambiguous – JBOD may also refer to each physical disk being presented as a separate logical volume.
I tried I ran this:
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
and this worked perfeftly !!!! Will it work in Windows 7 or do you know what would??? This is by far the easiest solution
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