What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD

[Angrboda]

I recently fixed an issue with my RAID 5 array. If left idle, the disks would spin down and require a goodly long time to spin up again upon access. As it turns out, the default Windows power profile is to turn disks off after 20 minutes of disuse. Now that I've corrected that, the array is plenty fast. When I bought SSDs a few years back, I worried about their speed, and spent more to get the fastest ones. Anymore, I'm not sure speed is a legitimate concern, so I didn't worry about it when I rcently upgraded my SSD. It's a sata based SSD, but I doubt whether boot up time is a meaningful measure of how significant any difference in speed actually is. I suppose if this were a server delivering up database transactions, I might, but not as a desktop. Concerns in that usage seem overblown. My bootup time is substantial, but that's due to other bottlenecks than the SSD.

My computer has taken to freezing about once every day or so. I suspect that's due to the quantity and kind of USB devices attached, including a portable MP3 player, but I don't feel any desire to make changes in that area. I recently moved the USB 2.0 devices off the USB 3.0 hubs onto a USB 2.0 hub dedicated for keyboards and mice, and that appears to have helped. I've still got two low speed devices on the same hub as a high speed USB 2.0 external hard drive, but that seems unavoidable. This motherboard only has two USB 3.0 hubs accessible from the back, making four ports total (and I don't have a USB 3.0 hub for those ports).