I just installed windows 1607 to check if its less problematic than newer versions when it comes to how it handles hdd. And im in shock because i feel like im "flying above the ground" when using it. Everything is so smooth and instant wow. Newer version seems delayed for example clicking on start menu feels noticably lagged here non existant. Also dpc latency does not jump like crazy storport.sys especially. I think they droped support for hdd and optimized it for ssd only cuz i imagine they thought "2k20 and ppl use hdd kekw"
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HDD and Windows 10.
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I'm currently running below the recommended specs for windows 10 (1909). Sampson LE 1150 with beta windows 8.0 drivers, on HD 3470's in crossfire(<-lolz) with a sata 1.5Gbs HDD it loads windows 10 faster than, it does windows 7 on phenom iI x6 1035t On a HDD.
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I personally feel Windows 10 is completely tuned for SSDs. At my last employer they had hundreds of HDD equipped workstations. After several weeks of use the workstations felt slow and old despite being equipped with 4-6 core CPUs and 8GB of RAM. The worst part was booting into Windows the initial loading of apps into memory for launch. After about 15 minutes they felt reasonably snappy as long as you didn't run anything disk intensive.
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They don't have a problem with hdds in general, the problem starts when the c drive is a hdd. My 2 main systems and my laptop have hdds as data storage and work just fine, even for gaming, but I use ssds as c drives and that makes all the difference. Imo if you can afford even the cheapest SSD use it for c and you will be golden, if that is not a possibility I would suggest a raid 0 for the c keeping in mind that if one of the drives fails you are s out of luck, but if you only have win on there it should be ok.
I run 1607 + used sential to set hdd to max performance. Difference is so big that im scared to think would it would look like with ssd . I think there is no pc component that hits performance harder than hdd>ssd jump... Not even cpu or gpu or ram will hit performance this hard as hdd.