I have an old 2 x Xeon server 48 cores/96 hyperthreading + M.2 + 128GB 1333mhz RAMs. each cpu speed is ~2.0Ghz. It's getting slower and slower months by months. How can I make it ran faster like a gaming PC since i have 96 cores? Thank you
How much longer? Used to be 1min now 2min or now 10min? Again the more specific you are are easier it is to provide reasonable answers.
If it is a boot up issue I would look at your system disk. Is it an old spinning HDD, or a newer SSD or M2.NVME?
Ram speed is not going to effect boot up or application launch times, unless your ram is really slow.
For video production you cant beat the old Seagate Pipeline HD hard drives.
Seagate Pipeline HD2 hard drives were also fitted out in Sky boxes which are solely used for recording and playback of video files.
Pipeline HD2 for the win
One issue at a time:
First, in general... refresh the hibernation file... what? how? in terms of booting up, you surely have the option of "fast boot" activated, this uses some sort of hibernation file, and the space (and thus, the time used to write/read) depends on the amount of RAM you have, and yes, the more ram you have and use, the larger the file. Why? you can google the details. Anyway, you can tell Windows to use only a fraction of the usual size for this file, and yes there is a limit, you can't tell it to use 10%, it will stay at the limit, in fact use the "REDUCED" option (it will make sense when you google the info, you know, the powercfg /h /type reduced).
Let's make some sense out of what I previously wrote. From time to time, don't shutdown, do a restart instead, this will refresh some stuff. And from time to time, clear the mem file, I mean: turn off fast boot, and then turn it on again, and then proceed with powercfg /h /type reduced, you will see an instant change while booting.
Now let's make even MORE SENSE about this: you are killing your SSD's.
Not knowing, or being careless about the fast boot will make your computer read and write several gigabytes daily just booting up, and your SSD's don't like that. Many people recommend not using fast boot AT ALL, some, due to new technologies, cheaper prices, and larger drives say "it's ok", but writing so much data daily it's only acceptable when your drive is big enough, SSd's don't like when you use certain quote of space and will work better when lots of space is free and available.
Same thing applies to video editing. Yeah, it's sweet to edit video on SSD's, it's fast and practical, but it uses lots of gigabytes, and consumes your amount of "writes" pretty fast, wearing down the chips until you can actually sense it becoming slow, or producing errors because some areas of the chips are not safe anymore due to wear.
Yeah, it sucks. My advice is to use SSds for video editing only on specific and special cases, and keep using internal 7500 RPM hard drives as usual, unless you don't mind spending money to buy new SSDs from time to time and retiring the used ones after a while. It doesn't matter how fast your computer is, how many cores, etc... your SSds are wearing out, and I didn't say "RAM" didn't matter, because it does as explained above impacting your SSds.
Now you know, good luck.
* Yeah, former video editor here.
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