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Category Archives: Windows
enable TRIM in windows 7
This command will confirm if TRIM has been auto-enabled by windows 7
fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)
If you would like to force it on;
fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0
windows w2k8 R2 64bit – 32bit ODBC for virtual center server
You must create your ODBC connection using the 32-bit ODBC program. It is not as simple as running odbcad32.exe from the run / search bar.
you must run the following to get the actual 32-bit version;
%systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe
Populate this with the details and you should see it in the virtual center installer.
vmware – XP as a virtual guest
I’ve run into some issues lately with XP guests that are running off a IDE controller. If you want any kind of performance you must build your machine with the LSI drivers (parallel).
Here is a flp image with the required LSI drivers (Press F6 etc on xp boot)
HDD short stroking – is it worth it?
I’ve got some old 250Gb drives that are starting to show their age. I’ve currently got them setup in a 3x RAID 0 config which presents about 750Gb of space.
I’ve got everything on a single partition (meh, i’m lazy). I’ve done various speed tests in the current setup (with all space allocated), but i thought i’d re-image onto a short stroke partition.
I only use about 150Gb of space on my main machine (most of my data is on another box), so i’m going to try creating a 200Gb partition to test if this provides any kind of performance boost.
So reducing my raid 0 from 750Gb to 214Gb, and here are the results…
Before with all 750Gb presented…
Same disks but short stroked to 214Gb….
Conclusion : Yip, seems like its worth it if you have the spare space. Average throughput is up by 10MB/s and seek has improved by almost a third loosing 4ms.
You will get even more of an improvement if you can use a smaller % of capacity per drive and / or more drives for your stripe.
Updated : 07/02/2010
btw – the above was without write-back cache enabled…. if i turned that on i got the following…
