Specifications

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1. OpenRegedit.
2. GotoHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem.
3. Intherightpane,lookfortheDwordnamedNtfsMftZoneReservation.
4. IfexistschangetheDwordto4.
5. Ifnotexists,createanewDWORDNtfsMftZoneReservationintheregistryandsetitsvalueto4.
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EXTRAINFO
Thedefaultvalueforth
iskeyis1.Thisisgoodforadrivethatwillcontainrelativelyafewlargefiles.Other
optionsinclude:
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2—Mediumfileallocation
3—Largerfileallocation
4—Maximumfileallocation
Unfortunately,Microsoftdoesn'tgiveanyclearguidelinesastowhatdistinguishesMediumfromLargerand
Maximumlevelsoffiles.Suffi
ceittosay,ifyouplantostorelotsoffilesonyourworkstation,youmaywantto
consideravalueof3or4insteadofthedefaultvalueof1.
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ObjectDirectoryBackupToolSetup
IfyousetupyourObjectDirectorybackuptool,makesureitisnotrunningtoomanytimesadaybecausethe
inbetweentimewillbetooshort.Thiswillcausethetooltorunconstantlycausingoverload.Donotusethe
objectchangetrackerinbigdatabase.Itwilldecreasethedatab
asespeedabout100%!
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Anti‐VirusScanner
Itisnotnecessarytouseavirusscanneronthedatabase(SBDATA).Mostofthedataisencrypted,sothereis
nothingtobescannedandscanningwillreducemuchoftheperformance.Switchoffanyscanningofthe
SBDATAontheEEPCDatabaseserver.Also,excludetheSbDbServerexecutablefromsc
anning.
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AlsoifyourAntiVirusprogramhashigh‐risk/low‐riskprocessdetectionmarkingalltheEEM/EEPCmain
executablesontheserveraslowriskanddisablescanningonreads/writesmayhelpfurther(seescreen
shots).
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ExamplesetupusingMcAfeeVSE8.5:
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