HexiumVII Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 I have a comp mainly for downloading and for friends to use whatevers. It has 1GB of RAM and four 400GB hard drives. I want to make it spin down when not used, since its not used that much. What settings should i make so that it doesn't need to read/write from the disk often? Like setting the cache to manual like 500MB maybe? I have a pretty slow RR 600KB/35KB true up/downs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 Spinning down drives repeatedly reduces their life, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Well I guess the better question would be, what is the best way to improve the lives of his hard drives? What are the best utorrent settings for the least ammount of wear and tear on a hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 29, 2006 Report Share Posted September 29, 2006 Set a very high cache size manually, enable caching of disk writes, and enable caching of disk reads. Everything else should be disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwweagle Posted October 12, 2006 Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 @Ultima Can you tell detaicaled???How to set it...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 13, 2006 Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 Err... that is pretty detailed already... there are only 3 things to enable, and they're all listed above. Everything else, as I said above, should be disabled if you want to make maximum usage of the cache system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwweagle Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Hi Ultima,like this????How can i chang read cache? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I didn't say to enable the "Reduce memory usage when the cache is not needed" option... But that's the only thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwweagle Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Ultima,thanks very muchi chang my setting to these....it woks fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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