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(Jun 17, 2017, 02:35 PM)Nightmare Wrote: [ -> ]How old is your hardware?

You may also want to consider reinstalling if your Windows install is that old.

(Jun 17, 2017, 02:35 PM)Nightmare Wrote: [ -> ]How old is your hardware?

You may also want to consider reinstalling if your Windows install is that old.

(Jun 17, 2017, 03:16 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]Next time the issue occur, open the Task Manager and go into processes. Then sort the processes by disk usage and tell us what processes that are on the top and how much disk they use.

You could also try to run a disk diagnostic with any disk diagnostic software to see if your disk have reached it's lifespan.

(Jun 17, 2017, 02:35 PM)Nightmare Wrote: [ -> ]How old is your hardware?

You may also want to consider reinstalling if your Windows install is that old.

I would also not really call a 8 months old Windows installation old. I've been running my Windows installation for over a year without any bigger problems and I can ensure that it will run for a few more months or years. But I guess it all comes down on how well you take care of your computer.

(Jun 18, 2017, 02:55 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]You could also try to defrag your HDD which should make it run better.

(Jun 18, 2017, 12:15 AM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]-snip snip-

Isn't the OS the first thing you would put on an SSD?
It would decrease your boot times and would overall make it run a lot faster. I also like to keep my games on a HDD because of all the space it takes on the SSD.
I would never, EVER recommend putting your OS on an external drive of any kind. External drives are more prone to being damaged/corrupted than a drive that is sitting in a computer.

Something that's good to know is that SSDs often have a lot shorter lifespan than a normal HDD and you will most likely run out of storage if you don't choose one with more than 250GB storage.
I think you misunderstood lifespan. I was using 'lifespan' as how long the drive will last. HDD drives have moving parts, that said, if it is dropped parts can be broken. SSD drives use flash memory with 0 moving parts. If it is dropped it has a greater chance of surviving than that HDD drive.


My SSD recommendations from my own experience:

If you want to spend more money on storage:
Buy a SSD with more than 250GB storage. It will overall make your computer run faster and you should have enough with space depending on how much games and files you have.
Only if you buy an internal, I would get more than 250GB, for the fact that it is safer.

If you don't want to spend that much on storage but still want an SSD:
Buy a SSHD. A SSHD is a mix between a HDD and a SSD, which is a HDD but it has a small amount (Often around 8GB) of SSD storage which you can store your OS in. This will give you a lot of storage to store all your games and files in but it will still make your OS boot and run a lot faster.
SSHD doesn't give enough capacity to put all your games on your flash memory storage. 8GB is a little amount. Here, we are looking for decreasing the boot and loading time for GMod. Not your whole comuter, although an SSD would greatly improve your overall system and programs.

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:18 PM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 02:55 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]You could also try to defrag your HDD which should make it run better.

(Jun 18, 2017, 12:15 AM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]-snip snip-

Isn't the OS the first thing you would put on an SSD?
It would decrease your boot times and would overall make it run a lot faster. I also like to keep my games on a HDD because of all the space it takes on the SSD.
I would never, EVER recommend putting your OS on an external drive of any kind. External drives are more prone to being damaged/corrupted than a drive that is sitting in a computer.
What I meant is that he should put it on a internal SSD.

Something that's good to know is that SSDs often have a lot shorter lifespan than a normal HDD and you will most likely run out of storage if you don't choose one with more than 250GB storage.
I think you misunderstood lifespan. I was using 'lifespan' as how long the drive will last. HDD drives have moving parts, that said, if it is dropped parts can be broken. SSD drives use flash memory with 0 moving parts. If it is dropped it has a greater chance of surviving than that HDD drive.
That may indeed be true. But if you lookup the technology that a SSD uses, you'll find out that a SSD has a limited number of writes to the SSD.


My SSD recommendations from my own experience:

If you want to spend more money on storage:
Buy a SSD with more than 250GB storage. It will overall make your computer run faster and you should have enough with space depending on how much games and files you have.
Only if you buy an internal, I would get more than 250GB, for the fact that it is safer.
Indeed. I would never buy a external SSD.

If you don't want to spend that much on storage but still want an SSD:
Buy a SSHD. A SSHD is a mix between a HDD and a SSD, which is a HDD but it has a small amount (Often around 8GB) of SSD storage which you can store your OS in. This will give you a lot of storage to store all your games and files in but it will still make your OS boot and run a lot faster.
SSHD doesn't give enough capacity to put all your games on your flash memory storage. 8GB is a little amount. Here, we are looking for decreasing the boot and loading time for GMod. Not your whole comuter, although an SSD would greatly improve your overall system and programs.
As said, a SSHD would ONLY be to improve your system's boot time. This could be a cheaper alternative than buying a SSD if you don't want to spend money on one. The 8GB on the SSHD would be enough to store most operating systems on and would be a perfect cheaper alternative.

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:34 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:18 PM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 02:55 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]-snip snip-

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:40 PM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:34 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 05:18 PM)Monkey Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 18, 2017, 02:55 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]-snip snip-

He has a laptop. An external is much easier to use on a laptop, then going through the trouble of duplicating your computer's storage and replacing the HDD drive to an SSD drive or an SSHD drive. A Desktop computer is much easier to upgrade. You don't even know if the laptop is up-gradable. And here stands my point. An external drive is much easier to use for a laptop. Also if he chooses to upgrade to a desktop PC than moving already fairly used data, will be much easier.

(Jun 18, 2017, 02:55 PM)Jompe Wrote: [ -> ]My bad. Didn't think of that he had a laptop. But if your laptop is upgradeable you could try to buy a internal HDD/SSD/SSHD. Some laptops have screws on the bottom that you can remove to replace the storage quite easily.