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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb
green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Thank you in advance for all replies. -- When I am in the kitchen, I often kick one of my cat's balls. After I kick it, he will sometimes play with it for a few seconds to several minutes. His favorite are the ones that rattle. He'll play with any ball that makes noise. |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
Daniel Prince wrote
I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Basically depends on what you are doing with that system. If you dont have enough physical ram and the swap file is used a lot, and the hard drive led is on quite a bit of the time, yes, it may well be faster. But it would be better with most systems to increase the amount of physical ram instead. That isnt always possible tho, particularly if you already have the max that 32 bit XP can use etc. If the system isnt actually IO bound, it may well be that the reason it bogs down has nothing to do with the drive IO and it may not make any real difference at all, particularly if you dont do stuff like primitive non indexed database stuff or keep furiously closing and opening new apps etc. Thank you in advance for all replies. Even ones that tell you to shove your head up a dead bear's arse ? Funky. |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
Daniel Prince wrote:
I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Thank you in advance for all replies. I doubt it. Spend the money on more RAM instead. Even under the best circumstances going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm gives you less than a 30% speedup, as data-densities on 5400rpm drives are typically higher. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
"Arno" wrote in message
... I doubt it. Spend the money on more RAM instead. Even under the best circumstances going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm gives you less than a 30% speedup, as data-densities on 5400rpm drives are typically higher. They eventually catch up. All 2TB should be 4x500GB by now. For 3TB its 5400RPM 4x750 vs 7200RPM 5x600. |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
Arno wrote:
Daniel Prince wrote: I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Thank you in advance for all replies. I doubt it. Spend the money on more RAM instead. Even under the best circumstances going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm gives you less than a 30% speedup, as data-densities on 5400rpm drives are typically higher. It would not be much money. I plan to buy a DVR that would need a hard drive. I thought I would buy a 7200 rpm drive, put it into the computer and then use the old drive in the DVR. The real cost is the difference between the price of a 2tb 5400 rpm drive and a 7200 rpm drive. There are two things that my computer does slowly: 1. Search for and delete duplicate picture files with CloneSpy version 2.6. I have over 320,000 picture files that it has to compare. 2. Do a global search with Agent version 5.0. Agent 5.0 uses one data file and one index file for each newsgroup. It compresses the data files. Some of the data files are about eight gigabytes. -- When a cat sits in a human's lap both the human and the cat are usually happy. The human is happy because he thinks the cat is sitting on him/her because it loves her/him. The cat is happy because it thinks that by sitting on the human it is dominant over the human. |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
Daniel Prince wrote
Arno wrote Daniel Prince wrote I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Thank you in advance for all replies. I doubt it. Spend the money on more RAM instead. Even under the best circumstances going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm gives you less than a 30% speedup, as data-densities on 5400rpm drives are typically higher. It would not be much money. I plan to buy a DVR that would need a hard drive. I thought I would buy a 7200 rpm drive, put it into the computer and then use the old drive in the DVR. The real cost is the difference between the price of a 2tb 5400 rpm drive and a 7200 rpm drive. True. There are two things that my computer does slowly: 1. Search for and delete duplicate picture files with CloneSpy version 2.6. I have over 320,000 picture files that it has to compare. Its unlikely that that will change much with the faster drive. And surely the time that takes is irrelevant anyway given that it should be scheduled to happen when the system isnt otherwise being used ? 2. Do a global search with Agent version 5.0. Agent 5.0 uses one data file and one index file for each newsgroup. It compresses the data files. Some of the data files are about eight gigabytes. That may well be noticeably faster, particularly when the search is being done on the content of the posts, not just the headers, because the content isnt likely to be indexed. |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
Daniel Prince wrote:
Arno wrote: Daniel Prince wrote: I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system significantly? Thank you in advance for all replies. I doubt it. Spend the money on more RAM instead. Even under the best circumstances going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm gives you less than a 30% speedup, as data-densities on 5400rpm drives are typically higher. It would not be much money. I plan to buy a DVR that would need a hard drive. I thought I would buy a 7200 rpm drive, put it into the computer and then use the old drive in the DVR. The real cost is the difference between the price of a 2tb 5400 rpm drive and a 7200 rpm drive. Ah, then go for it. Just don't expect much speed gain. There are two things that my computer does slowly: 1. Search for and delete duplicate picture files with CloneSpy version 2.6. I have over 320,000 picture files that it has to compare. 2. Do a global search with Agent version 5.0. Agent 5.0 uses one data file and one index file for each newsgroup. It compresses the data files. Some of the data files are about eight gigabytes. Well, in that case you may see the 30%. But better look at the transfer rates of the new disk, 7200rpm drives can be as slow as 5400rpm ones for these applications, but they can also be faster. For Hitachi, you will probably get faster ;-) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Speeding up my computer with a 7200 rpm drive
I suggest moving to Windows 7 x64 as it can manage more memory easily. Then
using 16 GB of RAM will make any hard disk look good. |
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