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harkonnen
Joined: 08 May 2005
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Location: New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:38 am Post subject: Is hard drive size that significant? (I.E: 80G vs. 160G) |
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| Assuming a good portion of each drive is kept free does the extra 80G actually make a difference in performance? And while I'm at it is there an improvement using a SATA drive? Furthermore, is a HDD with 16mb cache better than one with 8 (Significantly faster for FS?) Any comments on HDD's @ 10,000 rpm? I never thought much about hard drive performance but better drives must make a difference. |
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Sandpiper-N121PP
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Location: Seattle, Washington
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| Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Is hard drive size that significant? (I.E: 80G vs. 160G) |
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harkonnen wrote: Assuming a good portion of each drive is kept free does the extra 80G actually make a difference in performance? And while I'm at it is there an improvement using a SATA drive? Furthermore, is a HDD with 16mb cache better than one with 8 (Significantly faster for FS?) Any comments on HDD's @ 10,000 rpm? I never thought much about hard drive performance but better drives must make a difference.
Yes, a SATA Hard Drive is better than an IDE any day of the week. You will get much faster access time off of the drive and if it has cache on it... all the better. I personally have two of them in my system and have XP installed on the smaller one with my Flight Simulator installed on the slave drive. It also helps to move your swap file to a drive that your Operating System in not on. This will help to speed up the performance of your machine too.
Please take care when making changes to your system for you can mess things up if you are unsure of what you are doing. Always ask somebody for help if you are unsure of exactly what you are doing. Here is a link to an article I wrote on here a couple of months ago about what you need to make a nice system for MSFS 2004. Remember... all parts equally need to be up to par. If one is lagging.... it can slow the entire computer down.
Hope this helps.
http://forums.surclaro.com/ftopic4812.html |
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harkonnen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Sandpiper, just read this and it clears things up. Nice to know that the SATA drives aren't that much more money these days, I guess you have to have the M/B that will run it, though. This forum rules, when I do go to make my new PC purchase I can buy with confidence and saavy. |
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Sandpiper-N121PP
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Location: Seattle, Washington
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:27 am Post subject: Sata Drives |
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harkonnen wrote: Thanks Sandpiper, just read this and it clears things up. Nice to know that the SATA drives aren't that much more money these days, I guess you have to have the M/B that will run it, though. This forum rules, when I do go to make my new PC purchase I can buy with confidence and saavy.
Sata drives are the bomb!!! I mean... I have an 80GB for my main and a 200GB for my games and other stuff. My access time is just quick and it really helps out alot on load time of games and everything else too. Glad I could be of help.
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