[GUI-Talk] computer storage

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings:

There are also problems with hard drives where temporary storage grows
extremely large or when defragmentation over time is not handled by routine
defragmentation maintenance. Fortunately, SSD flash drives eliminate the
need for defragmentation maintenance, but they do need to be optimized from
time to time.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] computer storidge

Over the last 6 years, hard drives have been replaced by solid-state drives 
(SSD). These are made of flash memory, like you find in an SD card, USB 
thumb drive or NLS talking-book cartridge. These SSD's are built to last 
longer than your typical removable storage device, hopefully at least as 
long as a hard drive. They are much, much faster for disc operations, which 
are frequent in Windows, even when you aren't doing anything.
Even if you keep using your computer with its hard drive, you should check 
to see how full it is. I would say that if it is more than half full, it 
will run slower than it did when new. If it is 90% full, you will likely 
experience serious slowdowns.
You might find that there are a lot of video or audio files taking up space;

you may need to cull the herd and move some of them to flash drives or other

storage if you really want them somewhere.
People colloquially call this slowdown process "bit rot".




Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Rob Kaiser via GUI-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2020 10:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] computer storidge

I had a difficult time understanding him, but I mentioned to him that my
computer is 6 years old, & it was running very slow. He said something about
adjusting my storidge. Because my other issue that I called about took a
while, I forgot about the storridge issue. I thought I would check with
someone on this list 1st before I called back the Microsoft Helpdesk.


Rob Kaiser Email;
rcubfank at sbcglobal.net

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Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] computer storidge

Well, we don't know what it is that the person really said in order to help
you.  Pam.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Kaiser via GUI-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2020 1:10 AM
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Cc: Rob Kaiser
Subject: [GUI-Talk] computer storidge

I was on the phone with the Microsoft Helpdesk yesterday regarding an issue.
In talking to them about my slow computer, the person mentioned something
about my storidge & that if I did something, my computer would run faster.
Is this something I can do by just changing a setting on my compuger, or is
this something I have to download or purchase?





Rob Kaiser Email;

rcubfank at sbcglobal.net



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