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Why are we even messing with anything other than WD these days?
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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 887809" data-attributes="member: 57233"><p>I'll never believe ANYONE saying WD doesn't slow down systems. It just doesn't compute on any way. It's not like my 5820k at 4.6GHz on all 6 cores with 12 threads, 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD are somehow slow by any means. If anything, it should negate ANY effect entirely or mostly. What I think is the case is that people don't actually know it's slowing their systems down. It's not like it makes it slow by taking 3 hours to boot or make Start menu open with 5 second delay. But opening Downloads folder full of EXE files and whole system will drag its feet behind itself and you can even see icons slowly refreshing. It also makes compiling of my tweak tools like 5x longer. Sure whole process still only takes like 3-4 seconds, but with any other antivirus, it takes just 1 second or 2 and it's really annoying I'm expecting to move on and test the binary and I have to sit there and wait for something I know it doesn't take that long with other antivirus. And then executing that compiled binary. Again, massive lag executing it. And it's just a ~500KB binary. Takes seconds with WD whee with most other AV's it takes 1 second or less. Don't get me started with big EXE files like graphic drivers from NVIDIA that are 500MB in size. It takes forever to launch compared to other AV's. I don't know what WD does and how that makes it so much slower, but others are doing something better which makes them that so much faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 887809, member: 57233"] I'll never believe ANYONE saying WD doesn't slow down systems. It just doesn't compute on any way. It's not like my 5820k at 4.6GHz on all 6 cores with 12 threads, 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD are somehow slow by any means. If anything, it should negate ANY effect entirely or mostly. What I think is the case is that people don't actually know it's slowing their systems down. It's not like it makes it slow by taking 3 hours to boot or make Start menu open with 5 second delay. But opening Downloads folder full of EXE files and whole system will drag its feet behind itself and you can even see icons slowly refreshing. It also makes compiling of my tweak tools like 5x longer. Sure whole process still only takes like 3-4 seconds, but with any other antivirus, it takes just 1 second or 2 and it's really annoying I'm expecting to move on and test the binary and I have to sit there and wait for something I know it doesn't take that long with other antivirus. And then executing that compiled binary. Again, massive lag executing it. And it's just a ~500KB binary. Takes seconds with WD whee with most other AV's it takes 1 second or less. Don't get me started with big EXE files like graphic drivers from NVIDIA that are 500MB in size. It takes forever to launch compared to other AV's. I don't know what WD does and how that makes it so much slower, but others are doing something better which makes them that so much faster. [/QUOTE]
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