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    I Love Seagate /S

    I wouldn't blame the hard disk first. Run CrystalDiskInfo and the Windows Memory Diagnostic. If CrystalDiskInfo shows UDMA CRC errors, change your SATA cable. Whatever the cause is, you need to backup whatever you can, because file system corruption like that is bad enough that you need to...
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    SMART ID 01 Read Error Rate (What is this and is the drive bad or going bad?)

    Crystal Disk Info would have flagged the attribute if there was a problem.
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    Single core machines and VMs use 100% processor while searching for updates

    It is true because the hypervisor must schedule all cores to run simultaneously every time, but using two cores on hosts that have 4 or more threads of execution available will not be a problem compared to staying at single core.
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    Single core machines and VMs use 100% processor while searching for updates

    Windows XP to at least Win 7 have all been subject to extremely long scans that leave the CPU pegged. It would be more annoying with a single core, but I don't think the core count has anything to do with the problem. They have all been down to the complexity of the data to analyze, or...
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    Transferring same file between PC's one direction is faster than the other

    Followed the MS answers link above, found a number of people who resolved it by turning Large Send Offload V2 to Disabled in their network driver advanced settings on Win7.
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    HGST HE8, 512byte vs 4k sector models?

    Advanced Format is 512e. Advanced Format is not 4Kn.(native) And it is actually not true that Advanced Format has no special requirements. Software that depends on the 512-byte sector behavior of drives (e.g. database, filesystem) not destroying adjacent sectors in a crash do not...
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    HGST HE8, 512byte vs 4k sector models?

    Actually, you should stick with 512e unless you know otherwise. 4Kn can't be used until you have confirmed that your entire hardware and software stack is ready for it. From the disk controller, BIOS/UEFI, partition tables, external docks, and on up. A lot of components/software can not...
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    PNY's tech support

    Wow, good idea about the health numbers on other SSDs. Maybe they have been skewed to stay high. Nobody would complain about that. For OP, in Device Manager, Disk Drives, does your drive have Write caching enabled on the Policies tab for the drive?
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    PNY's tech support

    The info from Bruce/PNY seems okay to me. He is giving you reasonable conclusions based on the available information. Try running Resource Monitor on the machines. The Disk tab should show you disk activity, including the program, file, and bytes information. It might reveal your cause.
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    Core i3, Win 7 64 Bit, 16 Gb Ram, Samsung EVO SSD, Yet desktop refresh is slow

    Start a command prompt(normal) and CD appdata\local\microsoft\windows\explorer Delete everything in there. You might have to use task manager to kill explorer.exe Then use task manager to File/Run a new explorer.exe. Reboot.
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    ReFS sucks big time - or reinstalling has lost me access to my files.

    Don't give up on it yet. Did you install the right edition of Windows 10? Is it updated to the point of your previous installation yet?
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    windows 10 doesnt like alot of cores

    The description does sound like a Windows 10 problem. But, it is also a problem that is probably only going to show up on a machine that is compiling large programs. The work isn't going slower with more cores; what is happening is the mouse (and maybe other things) is getting drowned out by...
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    ReFS drive suddenly won't mount

    That could be marginal power on the laptop port. I have seen a drive fail to reliably spin up in marginal power circumstances. One of the reasons the newer USB port types mandate higher power capability. If the OS isn't running, there shouldn't be any writing going on, even if the drive is...
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    ReFS drive suddenly won't mount

    If we assume that you experience drop outs on this drive, (hence your switch to ReFS), then we can guess that such a thing occurred again. Just because ReFS can confirm the file data is either good or bad, does not mean that ReFS is able to survive corruption of it's own data. Somehow, that...
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    Windows 8 getting laggy freezing hanging

    (This problem seems to have been finally resolved by the Aug 2017 quality & security update.) This post is FYI for the world. If anybody has anything to add, feel free. I have two Windows 8.1 computers that over the past few months, I noticed to be having pauses of about 30 seconds or so, with...
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