Windows 7 beta on friday.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 21st, 2009, 19:54

I left a machine running it at work for about three months, just running WoW from it at lunchtimes and livesync-ing with my home machine.

One day came in to a black screen saying it had lost the disks (RAID pair) but was okay on a reboot, I can't report any other issues with it at all, once I'd got the drivers sorted (used Fista ones where there was no other option).

Post by **Dog Pants** » September 21st, 2009, 21:06

Actually, I have had a couple of spazzes where it's wanted to do a repair. Just needed a reboot both times.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 21st, 2009, 21:25

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:no system maintenance at all, autodefragging seems whole thing is running very, very well indeed

Not sure if a word got missed there.

Also not sure I like autodefragging. It's likely the cause of the one crash I did have, doesn't make much sense when you have striped drives and wears out the disks unneccessarily. I'd prefer the unix solution of not actually fragmenting the files in the first place when they are written, but beyond miracles happening turning it off would be acceptable.

Post by **deject** » September 21st, 2009, 21:32

There probably is a way to turn it off, I am sure google will turn up a solution. It's the same a Fista, so solutions for that should also work on 7.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 21st, 2009, 22:13

yep, just disable it in the admin control panel

Post by **FatherJack** » September 21st, 2009, 22:39

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:yep, just disable it in the admin control panel

Thought it would be an option, just my server mentality creeping in that when a drive's 50% full it's time to buy a new one so I don't have any fragmentation thank you for trying Windows.