HD question

Deathrow

Deathrow

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Ok I only have a small hardrive and its full of the usual stuff. Now i only have about 3.5gb left (shameful) but luckily my HD is the only bad thing in my pc. But will having so little HD affect the speed or anything of the PC? or will it only affect the fact i cant install many more things?
 
the more stuff you have on your hdd will affect the seek time. getting a bigger hdd will deffently help the performence of your system.
 
If i buy a new HD say 300 Gb maybe bigger, What are the recommendations for transfering my data from my old HD to a new one?
 
What size is your present drive? Did you try cleaning it up to free up space? 300 gb HDD is a massive storage unit to purchase,especially if you don't really need it.
 
yes, even 100gb is sufficient. however, if you do feel that you need a 300gb, feel free to do so. some ways that you can approach this is:

1. back your necessary files onto a removable drive
2. "" "" "" "" "" "" cd/dvd data disc
3. run both the hdd and transfer the file between those two from the old to the new one
4. if you can't do any of those, you can compress your files via winrar/winzip and upload them to an online server so you can download it later when you have your new hdd operational (i wouldn't really recommend this step unless you are not able to do the previous 3)
 
Greggie Boy said:
What size is your present drive? Did you try cleaning it up to free up space? 300 gb HDD is a massive storage unit to purchase,especially if you don't really need it.
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It always good to have extra space.. You never know when you need it. Specially if you play lot of games and keep them on your hard drive
 
ok ive purchased a 300 gig hd, coming tomorrow. Wat ive decided to do is slot this into my machine, copy my music, my docs, films etc to the new 300 gig and reinstall any applications and games onto the 300 gig but to also keep my 38 gig one, format this and install my os and drivers on this smaller hd.

This sound about right?

Also i got a question, if i have 2 hds, when i do scans, virus scans, etc will it work for both hds if it doesnt ask me to choose which hd? or will i have to install and run the program on both hds?
 
yeah as far as space, I put a 300gb drive in my comp. thinking I'd never use that much space, then my uncle gave me a 200 for a graduation present. I thought I'd never run out of room. I am already using over half this memory with movies and tv shows and games, so I guess what I am saying is that no matter how big you go, you'll find ways of filling up your drive
 
Deathrow said:
ok ive purchased a 300 gig hd, coming tomorrow. Wat ive decided to do is slot this into my machine, copy my music, my docs, films etc to the new 300 gig and reinstall any applications and games onto the 300 gig but to also keep my 38 gig one, format this and install my os and drivers on this smaller hd.

This sound about right?

Also i got a question, if i have 2 hds, when i do scans, virus scans, etc will it work for both hds if it doesnt ask me to choose which hd? or will i have to install and run the program on both hds?
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^^ anyone?

As for space well im a big music fan and have lots of albums and im a big gamer also. However i have limited the games I installed to just my favourites and the same with music. I also do alot of computer graphics which takes up alot of memory in both the programs and the work. However now with a bigger HD u never have to worry about wat u install or download. I can now install all my favourite games, music and be given the oppertunity to expand to having movies and more programs on the PC.
 
Virus scans (those which o an "entire system scan" will scann both HDD's.

What model is your old drive? IF you've purchased a speedy new drive with 7300RPM or better, and you pairing it with a very old 5400RPM 2MB cache drive, your performance still might suffer as far as load times and acces times go. I'd uggest ditchign the old one if it is ancient enough, and just re-installing your OS fuly for a fresh start on a new/fast drive.
 
As for space well im a big music fan and have lots of albums and im a big gamer also. However i have limited the games I installed to just my favourites and the same with music. I also do alot of computer graphics which takes up alot of memory in both the programs and the work. However now with a bigger HD u never have to worry about wat u install or download. I can now install all my favourite games, music and be given the oppertunity to expand to having movies and more programs on the PC.
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Yeah, can't really have too much space IMO, though it can sometimes lead to sloppy organization.

Also i got a question, if i have 2 hds, when i do scans, virus scans, etc will it work for both hds if it doesnt ask me to choose which hd? or will i have to install and run the program on both hds?
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If you do a full system scan most AV programs will scan all drives. To make sure go into options and make sure the drive is selected. So, no you don't have to install the program on both drives.
 
4W4K3 said:
Virus scans (those which o an "entire system scan" will scann both HDD's.

What model is your old drive? IF you've purchased a speedy new drive with 7300RPM or better, and you pairing it with a very old 5400RPM 2MB cache drive, your performance still might suffer as far as load times and acces times go. I'd uggest ditchign the old one if it is ancient enough, and just re-installing your OS fuly for a fresh start on a new/fast drive.
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Well these are the 2, they both have 7200 rpm but the 300 gig has a 16mb buffer and the 40 gig only has a 2mb buffer :(

Here they are compared: http://www.cclonline.com/product-compare.asp

So should I use them both?
 
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What about the fact my 40 gig HD could be used to install my OS and drivers so if those fail then i can reinstall them without losing all my documents and files. Isnt that worth it?

Or will the 2mb buffer slow down my 16mb buffer? even tho the 2mb buffer wud only be used for OS and drivers?
 
Deathrow said:
What about the fact my 40 gig HD could be used to install my OS and drivers so if those fail then i can reinstall them without losing all my documents and files. Isnt that worth it?

Or will the 2mb buffer slow down my 16mb buffer? even tho the 2mb buffer wud only be used for OS and drivers?
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Someone please.
 
install the os onto the new harddrive, then use the old 40 gig one for documents..as you won't see much of a loading time difference for word files or something or that sorts.
 
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