The
Ultimate Tutorial For Optimizing Your Hard Drive For 800%
Better Raw Performance....
You can try all sorts of
tweaks and tricks to improve your Windows performance -
registry cleaners, memory defraggers, vanilla hard drive
defrag, editing your system configuration to prevent
services and programs from loading, and so on… BUT some
of these utilities and tweaks are dangerous potentially
leaving your Windows Operating System unstable. More
importantly….. you’re wasting your precious time.
Performance gains from all these tweaks are negligible!
If they work, the sum total of the performance increase
might, if you’re lucky, be “milliseconds” per day.
No
tweaks address the main performance bottleneck of your
Windows PC and that is your hard drive and the time
taken to read files from it.
Out of
the factory – the average hard drive performs as
follows:
Average
Data Transfer – around 50 M/b per second
Average Seek Time – 13 milliseconds
Average Access time – 18 milliseconds
Through
what we are going to do via this tutorial – we are going
to significantly improve these figures to around:
Average
Data Access – around 120 M/b per second
Average Seek Time – 1 to 2 milliseconds
Average Access time – 6.5 milliseconds
We’re
going to give you around 800% raw hard drive
performance increase and the performance you’ll gain
when you are using your Windows PC will be CLEARLY
apparent. You’ll actually be quite stunned by the
performance increase as you’ll see programs literally
“snap” open when you launch them and you’ll see overall
latency reduce as you remove the “drag” from your
system.
Firstly
we are going to improve your average file read speed by
50% by taking advantage of NTFS file compression (built
into Windows & NTFS) that will reduce the amount of time
your drive takes to read files by an average of 50%.
Secondly we are going to improve your average data
transfer rates by 50% by moving files from most
frequently accessed files on your hard drive to the
outer tracks of your hard drive where data transfer
rates are as much as doubled.
Thirdly
we are going to improve your average file access times
by around 250% by getting all of the file clutter out of
the way and positioning your most frequently accessed
files within “track-to-track” seek physical distance on
your hard drive.
Fourthly we are going to optimize placement of our
system files and metafiles such as MFT and page file.
For another average of 25% improvement.
Your
overall hard drive performance will be improved by
around: 1.5 x 1.5 x 2.8 X 1.25 = 787%
Let’s
get to it!
Compressing
Key Files & Directories
NTFS file
compression is built in file compression that is part of
the NTFS file system. The file remains in its native
readable format (as opposed to zip compression) but
occupies a smaller space on the drive. Therefore less
physical data is accessed from the drive. It is
decompressed on the fly. Since today’s processors are so
powerful – the decompression time is negligible so the
time saved reading the file is directly proportional to
the compression factor. Some files compress 50 to 1,
some 10 to one and some, such as jpg files, are not
compressible. The average file compression factor you’ll
experience is around 1.6 to 1.
We’re
going to compress all files in these 3 main
directories:
In Windows XP:
In Windows Vista And Windows
7 - 32 bit
In Windows Vista and Windows
7 - 64 bit
We’re
going to perform the compression through a simple
command prompt command. Since some files will be locked
by the operating system we are going to perform the
compression in 2 steps – one in a normal Windows session
and a second time in safe mode to compress some of the
files that are not compressible in a normal Windows
session.
- Bring up the
command prompt: Start => Accessories =>
Command Prompt. You’ll have a small black
screen as per the MS-DOS days
- In Vista and 7 -
Change Directory to Users with the command CD
\Users
In XP Change Directory to Documents and Settings with
the command CD \Documents and Settings
- Enter the
compression command as follows: compact /c /s /i.
Your system will go through and compress all the files
in this directory and subdirectories. It could take 10
to 20 minutes depending on the amount of data.
- When complete do
the same with Program Files. Issue the command CD
\Program Files (for 64 bit systems do the same
with Program Files (x86).
- Enter the
compression command as follows: compact /c /s /i.
Your system will go through and compress all the files
in this directory and subdirectories. It could take 10
to 20 minutes depending on the amount of data.
- When complete do
the same with Windows Files. Issue the command CD
\Windows
- Enter the
compression command as follows: compact /c /s /i.
Your system will go through and compress all the files
in this directory and subdirectories. It could take or
so 20 minutes
- When complete we
are going to compress all other .exe and .dll files
across the whole drive. Issue the command CD\.
You should only have C:\> prompt showing.
- Enter the
compression command as follows compact /c /s /i
*.exe. This will compress all other .exe files
across your drive. When complete issue the command
compact /c /s /i *.dll. This will compress all .dll
files across the entire drive.
- When you complete
steps 1 through 9, restart your system into safe
mode. To do this, restart your system and as it is
starting tap the F8 key a few times. When the
safe mode dialogue comes up select the top option Safe
Mode and your system will boot into safe mode.
- Repeat steps 1 to
9. This will compress some of the files that were
locked in normal mode.
- When you have
completed steps 1 to 9, restart your system normally.
What
you have just done is applied NTFS compression to all
Program Files, User files and Windows files. These now
occupy about 2/3 the space on your hard drive they
normally did. Your hard drive will spend 1/3 less time
reading these files when and as your computer accesses
them because there is 1/3 less data to read from the
hard drive. You won’t see much of a performance increase
at this stage since many of the files will be
fragmented. In a moment we’ll move onto the
defragmentation, optimal file placement and confinement
of those files to the outer tracks of your hard drive
where transfer performance for those files will be
increased by an average of 50%.
Defragmenting,
Optimally Placing Files and Seek Confinement
These steps are where we are going to vastly improve the
performance. You will need UltimateDefrag to do this.
We are
going to:
- Move rarely used
files out of the way to the inner areas of your hard
drive using the archive function. Since these files
are rarely used we don’t want them in the fastest
performing areas of your hard drive which we want to
dedicate to Windows, Program Files and User Files.
- Defrag and Move
all the compressed files to the outer tracks of your
hard drive. These will end up in a narrow band at the
outer rings of your hard drive in your UltimateDefrag
disk display. Known as seek confinement.
Follow
these steps to achieve this:
- Launch
UltimateDefrag
- Select
Settings
- Under the Archive
section we are going to select Automatic – 91 Past
days data was not used and we are going to all
wildcard *.zip. This is going to move all files you
haven’t used in the past 90 days to the inner tracks
and also all zip files.
- Under High
Performance we are going to select Custom
(Select Files) and we are going to add:
In Windows XP: Program Files, Documents And
Settings and Windows
In Vista and Win 7: Program Files, Program
Files (x86) (in 64 bit versions), Program Data, Users
and Windows
- Note when you
check these directories you also need to click them
across to the left panel then select OK.
- Back at the
Settings screen you will also add files by wildcard:
*.exe, *.dll, *.sys
- Select Very Fast
Placement. FragProtect is optional.
- When you have
completed these settings, select OK to go back
to the UltimateDefrag main user interface.
Running
the defrag and file placement routine.
- Under
Defragmentation Mode select the CONSOLIDATE
method
- Select the
Options button right next to the Consolidate
method.
- Place a check
mark next to:
Respect High Performance
Respect Archive
Place Directories Next to MFT
Very Fast Placement
FragProtect is optional.
- When you have
selected these settings, press OK to go back to
the main UltimateDefrag screen.
- We are ready to
run the process. Press Start.
- UltimateDefrag
will now go ahead and perform the defragmentation and
file placement. Depending upon the amount of data on
your drive and current file placement this routing can
take anywhere between 20 minutes to 5 hours.
When
complete your drive is going to look something like
this:
Optimizing
Placement Of System Files
We’re going to complete the final step of placing
important system files such as MFT, Page File, USN
Change Journal and Logfile in close proximity to your
high performance files. You hard drive is constantly
writing to and reading from these system files and we
want to minimize travel time for your hard drive heads
to and from these system files.
- The first thing
we are going to do is take note of the cluster we want
these system files to begin at.
- Click your mouse
in the first square in the third ring from the outer
tracks.
- The cluster
viewer will appear in the left hand pane
- Take note of the
first number after cluster viewer. In this example it
is 6056610. This will be the Starting Cluster you will
use in the boot time screen.
- Go into
Settings and select Boot Time
- Keep all default
settings but in the Starting Cluster enter the number
you got from step 4 above.
- Check Run
During Next Boot and select OK.
- Exit
UltimateDefrag and restart your system.
- When your system
restarts the boot time module will defrag and
optimally place your system files.
- After your system
starts you may want to (and should) run
Defragmenting, Optimally Placing Files and Seek
Confinement steps above to finalize placement of
your files after movement of your system files.
Your
final disk display when you have completed this routine
will look something like the image below and your
average hard drive performance increase for your system
is around 800%! You WILL clearly see and feel this
performance increase.
Here
Is The Result - Average Hard Drive File Access
Performance Increase Around 800%:
Click Image To Enlarge
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