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| Thread ID: 68310 | 2006-04-24 04:02:00 | Will New Hard Drive Increase Speed | whitts (5961) | Press F1 |
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| 448987 | 2006-04-24 06:55:00 | It my experience, the average user may tell you things "run slowly" if they have a slow drive i.e. less than 7200 RPM. An example was the original mac minis.. Then again, you usually find they have some huge iTunes collection or photos from their digital camera... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 448988 | 2006-04-24 07:55:00 | Simple answer, It needs a service, and perhaps more ram. | Metla (12) | ||
| 448989 | 2006-04-24 08:23:00 | lol. :lol: They have big HDD, but a computer is much faster file seaching and transfering. I think my 5yrs old computer can transfer file faster than ipod, and ipod mini. |
MTLance (6768) | ||
| 448990 | 2006-04-24 13:33:00 | Thanks for everyones replies: I am running xp and i defraged a couple of days ago, i run two spyware programs, virus and a firewall. What would a system service entail anyway? I am a university student and my work envolves alot of reaserch, so having a word processer, pdf viewer, and multiple webpages open is often the case. Am dreaming thinking that i could have good speeds in this instance? |
whitts (5961) | ||
| 448991 | 2006-04-24 13:38:00 | The simplest service is to install and run cccleaner,and then to use the startup tab under advanced options in Spybot to turn off unrequired applications that are starting up everytime you launch windows.If you have never disabled any such items you may have dozens. If you wanted to you could shut down everything apart from your AV and firewall, though some of the other items maybe needed, especially on a Laptop. Other then that, increase your ram, 256 just aint enough for XP. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 448992 | 2006-04-24 23:28:00 | If just more space would help then on such a full drive getting rid of all except the last restore point might create a fair bit of room do it before a defrag and only if you a confident you have been running trouble free for some time. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 448993 | 2006-04-25 01:05:00 | The original poster is asking about a laptop hard drive in case anyone missed it, and according to this page (www.notebookreview.com) there is a significant difference between the commonly used 4200rpm drives and the 5400rpm drives: Most notebooks come with a 4200rpm drive standard, and that's cripplingly slow. 1.8" drives are always 4200rpm<snip> The difference in performance between a 4200rpm and 5400rpm drive is usually about 33% in favor of the 5400. A lot of users have reported substantially smoother computing experiences after making this upgrade, so if you can go with a 5400rpm if you're custom ordering your machine, do so. If that is the case then it would pay to check what speed the laptop's current drive is and if it is the 4200rpm then upgrading to a 5400rpm drive should speed things up a bit. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 448994 | 2006-04-25 03:45:00 | Bah. I am quite aware that it is a laptop, and I assumed the speed of the HD would be 4200rpm, The main bottle neck is still the lack of ram, and that the OS will be bloated. If money is to be spent then put it towards ram, and give the thing a tune up. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 448995 | 2006-04-25 04:14:00 | err...metla and co..... whitts NEVER ASKED about upgradeing ram/cpu or about any upgrades to improve speed. he/she asked " If i decide to upgrade my hard drive say to 80gb will i notice any difference in the general loading times ect?", thats all. nothing to do with ram etc. naturally upgradeing the cpu to a pentium would certainly make it faster, the same with adding ram, cleaning out the junk, and tweaking the OS. however none of that wasn't asked. if he/she upgrades the hardrive due to the lack of space the odds are he/she should get a performance increase depending on how much faster the new drive is. somehow i doubt manafactures would bother making faster drives if drive speed didn't impact performance. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 448996 | 2006-04-25 04:18:00 | Thats correct, they asked the wrong question. As it is I bet I could free up 10 GB on that HD. |
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