Low disk performance with Windows 8.1
Solution 1:
- disable windows search service (indexing)
- disable windows defender (realtime*)
- disable system protection (useless anyway, it even backups viruses lol, and many manufacturers have t heir own restore etc)
- disable antivirus or try another antivirus (eset is pretty good and low on resources usage)
- Almost like YLeven said, but set virtual memory to 512MB or 1024MB
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switch to a 120GB or bigger SSD, and put the 1TB HDD in a external enclosure
- sources well my own experience with slow drives
Solution 2:
Reduce the virtual disk size such as to a maximum of 512Mb.
Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advance System Settings -> Performance Options -> Advanced -> Virtual Memory -> (Change...)
Solution 3:
My advice is to add this DWORD (32-Bit) Value registry setting: IoPageLockLimit setting under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
and set it to Hex 50000. Originally I/O by default is 512 KB. There are many articles on the Internet that say that this setting is long and dead. I beg to differ. Try it and you'll notice a huge increase in response time. A hex value of 50000 should give you up to 300 MB of memory cache for I/O throughput. Experiment with higher settings if you have above 4 GB of RAM. If you want to benchmark, get a I/O monitoring utility.