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NDDU Julius BSIT

NDDU Julius BSIT

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I've been having troubles with my laptop getting slower as the other partition (700 GB) is starting to reach 3/4 of its capacity in which most of the contents are games. I have a desktop connected to the network here at home via LAN cable (Router has no WiFi) with partitions (C is 30 GB and D is approx 870 and E is approx 100 GB).

Can it help the performance of some of my apps including some heavy games if I put them all on a network drive on my desktop PC and access them through my laptop? I cannot yet afford a SSD solution for this problem.
 
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No.
The traffic over the network is slower than the traffic for an internal drive.

At one end, you have the CPU/Motherboard/RAM. At the other end, you have 'a drive'.
An internal drive connected directly tot he motherboard SATA port is as fast as it is ever going to be.
Add in the slower speed of the network, and it can only be slower. It will never, ever be 'faster'.

What is more troubling is:
"with partitions (C is 30 GB..."

You have a 30GB partition for the C drive?
What OS is this? 30GB is simply too small...
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No. You would just be adding network/SMB protocol latency and relying on the speed of the other drive. Because of the latency many games won't work well or have extremely long loading screens.

HD's don't get slower as they fill up. At least not noticeably so. Some would argue the greater seek times and fact that access/reading the beginning of spindle disks is faster than the middle or end, but the difference is very minuscule.
As you get below 10% free, spindle drive performance can slow down due to the OS's diminishing ability to defrag properly or the limited growth room for the page file. But you said that you have about 25% free so it's not that.

Have you run diagnostics on the drive and a full virus/spyware scan? More than likely you've got something going on in the OS that's causing the slowdown. Hopefully the drive isn't starting to fail.
 
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No.
The traffic over the network is slower than the traffic for an internal drive.

At one end, you have the CPU/Motherboard/RAM. At the other end, you have 'a drive'.
An internal drive connected directly tot he motherboard SATA port is as fast as it is ever going to be.
Add in the slower speed of the network, and it can only be slower. It will never, ever be 'faster'.

What is more troubling is:
"with partitions (C is 30 GB..."

You have a 30GB partition for the C drive?
What OS is this? 30GB is simply too small for the OS.
 
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NDDU Julius BSIT

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Yeah I tried to test partition sizes and saw this was faster since my desktop is not that all powerful so I maximized the most possible performance I could gain from that I guess it was too weird haha
 
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