Need Faster Harddrive?

Ok i have 160gig, 7200rpm harddrive (8mb cache i believe) i ahve this music folder with loads and loads of music and a few movies in there 2. And it laods slow so i took out all the movies deleted all the things i could, and it works considerable faster. Im n ot sure if a 10000rom hd would work better or whats the solution.

Don't hard drives usally get slow right before they get full?

Adding to sniperhchang's comment, files get more fragmented the fuller the drive is (especially new files) and it becomes more difficult to defragment because there is not a lot of space to use for that. High fragmentation will slow things down.



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Ya, just do a system defrag. Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmenter>Defragment

you need 15% disk space free to defrag efficiently.
or so windows tells my dad all the time. i keep telling him to upgrade because disk space is dirt cheap nowadays... hes got a 20gb and a 60gb and both are ide... his mobo supports sata! lol

yeah, you do need 15% free space, lol, if my mobos supported SATA, i'd have SATA drives lol, i dont know if they even support SATA lol.

The problem with 10,000 RPM drives, is that, in the SATA configuration, AFAIK, they only go to 150 GB (WD Raptor). So in this case, you'll see the "Slow down before full" effect. WD raptors also have a HIGH rate of failure. Maybe you should get a separate drive to house your data files, so they're not clogging your main drive slowing system performance. Perhaps a new SATA for the system, and IDE for file storage.

problem is i already tired disc defragrment and i got 120 gigs left out of 186, and instead of getting a different drive if i partioned it for different things would that help?

Sounds to me like there's something else going on with your system. Performance shouldn't be that bad durring normal operation with those kinds of statistics. How much RAM does this machine have? If it's 512, concider an upgrade to 1GB. You'll be surprised at how much a gig of ram improves system performance. Partitioning really doesn't help, as all the access is still being done on the same physical disk, but again, I'd run some infection scans, because if performance is really this poor, and all of a sudden, something sounds like it's infected, and that infection is having massive disk usage.

the problem is that you probably had so many damn files in there that when u go to access it, the harddrive seriously like, stops, sees all the crap, and has to give itself CPR before it tells you whats inside. My harddrives are all 7200's, and work great. But i too had a music folder with folders and folders of music, and spare songs. 17600 songs split into 3 folders. it would take my HDD about 4 or 5 seconds to actually load the window when i clicked on those folders. Happens the same way with my porn collection.... just split up the files, put em in folders, seperate it so that the HDD doesnt have so much to have to read all at once.