Short-Stroke: Why, and how.. This the info you'll be looking for.
Its a guide as to why and how by eflyguy.
Hope this helps.
Its a guide as to why and how by eflyguy.
Hope this helps.
how do you shortstroke?
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Originally Posted by IdPlease  Short-Stroke: Why, and how.. This the info you'll be looking for. Its a guide as to why and how by eflyguy. Hope this helps. |
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If its a fresh install of Windows, you can set up the partition size as you like.
There is no loss of space when you use a smaller partition for the OS, you just set the remaining space as a storage partition, so if you have 500GB, one partition at 50GB then you have 450GB on the storage.
Originally Posted by elliott_94 still though how do i create the partition? and what kind of storage drop would i expect, so i am at 500gb and what would i be at if i short stroked? |
There is no loss of space when you use a smaller partition for the OS, you just set the remaining space as a storage partition, so if you have 500GB, one partition at 50GB then you have 450GB on the storage.
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I had to use your guide
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Originally Posted by eflyguy Came here to post my link.. .. but they beat me to it!
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You can turn off indexing and auto defrag on the storage partition, to keep it "unused" until you specifically go there for something. In actual use, however, the benefits of short stroking are still there because when loading an application, for example, the random reads to pull all the pieces into memory will be concentrated across the smaller boot partition. It's not going to be going off to the storage partition during the load.
So, (a) using the additional space is OK and (b) you don't need to worry about limiting access to it.
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Originally Posted by IdPlease There is no loss of space when you use a smaller partition for the OS, you just set the remaining space as a storage partition, so if you have 500GB, one partition at 50GB then you have 450GB on the storage. |
So, (a) using the additional space is OK and (b) you don't need to worry about limiting access to it.
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