Hard Drive Question

Ziloz · Feb 28, 2016

Will a computer start to slow down as you fill a hdd? and would adding another 1TB hdd do anything to help it?

N3rdR4ge · Feb 28, 2016

definitely no, and no again. slowness is caused by poorly functioning hardware or a poorly maintained OS.

techgeek · Feb 28, 2016

Well it can if you have a small amount of physical RAM and the HDD is your main / only drive. With a small amount of RAM, the OS relies on the pagefile more. Once you start filling your physical RAM, the OS is forced to page out data from memory. If your HDD is full, it could limit the size of the pagefile which in turn could slow down your system.

N3rdR4ge · Feb 28, 2016

well, i doubt we need to get that technical.

but, since we are,

it could slow too if it is very fragmented or at max capacity as well.

also, the page file can be adjusted properly or just turned off completely if he does have enough ram.

thor220 · Feb 28, 2016

Ziloz :

Hard drives don't slow down when filled like solid state drives do. What does slow down read/write speeds is fragmentation and the position of the files on the hard drive. Fragmentation is when a file is split into multiple parts on the hard drive. The like a record player, the hard drive head will take time to get from one side of the disc to the other just to read one file. Files located near the center of the disc are going to read / write quicker because the head naturally resets to that position when not in operation and the length of the track is shortest near the center.

Adding another 1 TB hard drive will only help with your computer's speed if you plan to install the OS on it and only if it's faster than your current hard drive. If you want your OS to be very quick, just buy an SSD and install your OS on that. SSDs are much faster than hard drives.

N3rdR4ge · Feb 28, 2016

thor220 :

Ziloz :

Hard drives don't slow down when filled like solid state drives do. What does slow down read/write speeds is fragmentation and the position of the files on the hard drive. Fragmentation is when a file is split into multiple parts on the hard drive. The like a record player, the hard drive head will take time to get from one side of the disc to the other just to read one file. Files located near the center of the disc are going to read / write quicker because the head naturally resets to that position when not in operation and the length of the track is shortest near the center.

Adding another 1 TB hard drive will only help with your computer's speed if you plan to install the OS on it and only if it's faster than your current hard drive. If you want your OS to be very quick, just buy an SSD and install your OS on that. SSDs are much faster than hard drives.

agree ^the in-depth explanation^

thor220 · Feb 28, 2016

N3rdR4ge :

thor220 :

agree ^the in-depth explanation^

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!

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