mpack wrote: On my second post where I had reviewed your log, I asked for a description of the drive. You never gave me a full answer. You said "it's a 2TB drive", which doesn't tell me much. I'm not seeing where you confirmed other important details of the technology, brand, interface type etc. By the fact that you bought a new USB3 SSD I can gather that the old drive was not that. USB2 mechanical?
My sincere apologies. It is a hard drive I had bought a couple years ago, so I do not remember those details specifically nor do I know how to check them. I bought it off of amazon, though it appears that they removed the listing for it. The hard drive takes a USB-C cable, which makes me guess USB3 since I don't think USB2 has a USB-C port. I could be mistaken, and USB-C is a whole different thing though. It was an HDD drive as well. The 'file system' on it is set to NTFS. I had issues with that hard drive in the past with formatting and thought I had fixed them all since it was able to store files just fine after messing with it. I couldn't tell you exactly what I did to it in fixing it because that was about a year ago.
mpack wrote:I also recommended 1024MB to the VM, not 2048MB. The latter was to be used only if you could made RAM available, which you have not. I don't agree with Scott that it's ok to ignore this. If you want long term stability then I'd still say, reduce to 1024MB or add more RAM to the host.
I thought I had made the RAM available at the time, since when I opened task manager and had the machine running, it said only 4.8GB-ish used while I had the VM open with 2048 (going off of memory). In the long term, I probably will add more RAM when possible.
fth0 wrote:These values alone do not say much, because a running computer continuously writes small amounts of data to its system disk. More important is the behavior in the first hour. If you provided a zip file with the measurements, I'd take a look (also just for curiosity's sake).
Sure thing, I think this is about 5-10 minutes into the installation already. Each entry is logged every 10 minutes. If you want more data just let me know. See attached.