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| 448977 | 2006-04-24 04:02:00 | Gidday, I have a laptop 1.4Ghz Celeron, 256mb Ram and 40gb hard drive. I have used 35gb leaving me with only 5gb free and i have noticed the computer is taking longer to load up programs and boot ect.. If i decide to upgrade my hard drive say to 80gb will i notice any difference in the general loading times ect? |
whitts (5961) | ||
| 448978 | 2006-04-24 04:06:00 | Depends, is the disk drive the bottleneck? Will the new hard drive be faster than the old one ? A reinstall of the Operating System and Applications (not forgetting AntiVirus, AntiSpyware and Firewall) will speed the machine up if it hasn't been done for some time. Another way to get a bit more speed out of it is to defrag the hard drive partitions if they are fragmented. More memory might help as well. |
gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 448979 | 2006-04-24 04:08:00 | No, but getting more ram, and a faster CPU will help Defragging the hdd would also help. ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com) may help. It'll clean the temp files etc on the hdd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 448980 | 2006-04-24 04:34:00 | yes, provided the harddrive is faster than the previous one. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 448981 | 2006-04-24 05:29:00 | uh . . . . no,not unless your HD is breaking down, Your CPU/Ram/Motherboard wont be throwing around enough data fast enough to warrent a faster HD . Your first action would be to defrag the HD, delete all the temp and cache files on the system, and then dump all the unrequired items running in the background . It will give your system back its legs . If you want an instant performance increase then double your ram . |
Metla (12) | ||
| 448982 | 2006-04-24 06:14:00 | gotto disagree there metla, hardrives are a big bottle neck. hardrive speeds havn't kept pace with cpu or ram speeds. most pc's simply have to wait for the hardrive. while the speed increase may not show when just useing one app (thats fully loaded into the ram) it certainly shows up when running mulitable progs, exspecialy when open/closing switching between apps. it most certainly will help in load times. XP is a virtual memory system ie everything is run off page file so slower the hardrive the slower the memory system runs.don't forget with XP the more ram you have the BIGGER the page file becomes. most new 80gig drives are faster than an older 40gig. s |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 448983 | 2006-04-24 06:20:00 | When did they say they were running XP? Anyhow, its a celery 1.4 with bugger all ram, a faster HD will do squat,diddly squat. Edit. And yeah, Thanks for the "lesson on PC basics", thats about the tenth one you have given me now, I apreciate them, Print them out and tack em to the wall, carry a couple round in my wallet, gave some copies away to family at christmas time, and will probally expand into T-Shirts by the end of the year. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 448984 | 2006-04-24 06:29:00 | A new HDD doesn't mean that HDD will automacticallly speed up unless you maintain it e.g. keeping the system in order like defrag HDD, remove trojan,virus,spyware,fix broken registry and etc. I normally maintain my computer myself. So far so good for yrs except virus attack. Before buying a HDD check the HDD RPM speed and which processor is compatible with itn or not. Standard HDD RPM is 7200. The faster file transfering and file searching HDD will cost a lot more. |
MTLance (6768) | ||
| 448985 | 2006-04-24 06:52:00 | And yeah, Thanks for the "lesson on PC basics", thats about the tenth one you have given me now NP :thumbs: :D even in school holidays you can't excape the teacher :lol: |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 448986 | 2006-04-24 06:54:00 | And yeah, Thanks for the "lesson on PC basics", thats about the tenth one you have given me now, I apreciate them, Print them out and tack em to the wall, carry a couple round in my wallet, gave some copies away to family at christmas time, and will probally expand into T-Shirts by the end of the year . whahahahahah , gotta love that , gave me one hell of a good laugh anyway . everybody knows that hdd's have been the bottleneck for quite some time, regardless of lappy or desktop , hence why sata is such a speed enhancer although not the speed everybody wants cause we all want instant things to happen . I was lucky enough to try out a 4gig ssd i-ram disc and man oh man when you can start getting these things around the 80gig size and at a cheaper price they will be the way to go , i tried loding xp-pro onto it and when i booted it up after installing it was instant , bloody amazing . |
presso (10113) | ||
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