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    How to keep a 4200 RPM hard drvie speedy...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lemonspeaker, Sep 18, 2009.

  1. lemonspeaker

    lemonspeaker Notebook Evangelist

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    I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to keep a 4200 RPM hard drvie speedy by keeping my data compressed and on the outermost sectors of the HDD?

    I am a complete noob to all this vocab.

    Thanks!
     
    lemonspeaker, Sep 18, 2009
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  2. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Get a new hard drive Jeeves; that one's obsolete. Beside, it's only 25 cents per GB.
     
    Krane, Sep 18, 2009
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  3. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    if you create a small partition only, you can gain some speed. but not, if you then create a second partition, and fill that up, too :)

    other than that, if you somehow can, replace it, yes.
     
    davepermen, Sep 18, 2009
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    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3643453

    This thread explains everything you must know

    We don't know how may GB your HDD has and why you use a 4.200 RPM drive.
    You could create two partitions, whereas the first is the fastest and contains your OS and programs and the second contains your data. Then use the defrag tools to place the files efficiently.

    You could also try to improve the performance by using Turbo Memory.

    How much RAM do you have? and can you upgrade it to more?
     
    FrankTabletuser, Sep 18, 2009
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  5. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    did that work for you?
    I might compress myne too.
     
    moral hazard, Sep 18, 2009
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  6. Tinselworm

    Tinselworm Notebook Deity

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    sounds like you probably have PATATATATA, tata ,ta,tata!
    get yourselfs a loverly new hard drive - larger cache and other things also. big is good. if you have a SATA (unlikely) you can get a 7.2k one that will be fooooooster. positioning on the HDD is pointless because the outermost sectors will be slower to access anyway, the outside has more to travel than the inside etc... defrag and all that, use CCleaner.
     
    Tinselworm, Sep 18, 2009
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