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About a year ago I went back to WoW and would get as low as 10fps in raids and what not having settings on the lowest possible, but could play on max graphics seamlessly solo or in 5mans.
My current hard drive is on it's last leg. Some pos 80gig 2mb cache 7200rpm deskstar that came with this gateway like 10-15 years ago (yea it still works.)
I just ordered a new WD 250gig 8mb 7200 rpm PATA to replace it. Since my current HDD is so old and slow, would the replacement help with fps at all? I know it will improve load times in any game I play but just curious if the read/write would help improve anything gamewise. I'll throw in my crystaldisk report here in a spoiler
As you can see it has A LOT of hours logged on it. I don't run it 24/7, just about 14hrs a day equating to this thing being on for almost 5 years straight (amazed it lasted so long)
I don't really know what all the thresholds and current status mean aside from this thing is way past the thresholds listed. Seek error rate to me means it can't find whatever it's looking for and probably causing whatever program is running to bog down...so any clarification on what the items in the report mean would be appreciated (just the major ones, I know this thing is a dud)
So again, new/faster hard drive help improve in fps at all? And will it actually increase load times for games? I also play Diablo 3 and entering world/rift can take up to 20 seconds..so would I finally be able to enter asap?
PC is an old Gateway GT5228 model thats been made from other pc's. Mobo I think is stock Phoenix Technologies, have 5gigs of ram, windows 7 x64 AMD athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz with a Radeon HD 7750 (Sapphire Model) 1Gig DDR5
My current hard drive is on it's last leg. Some pos 80gig 2mb cache 7200rpm deskstar that came with this gateway like 10-15 years ago (yea it still works.)
I just ordered a new WD 250gig 8mb 7200 rpm PATA to replace it. Since my current HDD is so old and slow, would the replacement help with fps at all? I know it will improve load times in any game I play but just curious if the read/write would help improve anything gamewise. I'll throw in my crystaldisk report here in a spoiler
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CrystalDiskInfo 6.2.1 (C) 2008-2014 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
Date : 2014/10/14 4:31:23
-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
+ ATA Channel 0 (0) [ATA]
- HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H21N ATA Device
+ ATA Channel 1 (1) [ATA]
- HDS728080PLAT20 ATA Device
+ Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller [ATA]
- ATA Channel 0 (0)
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
- NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller [SCSI]
-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) HDS728080PLAT20 : 82.3 GB [0/1/0, pd1]
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(1) HDS728080PLAT20
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Model : HDS728080PLAT20
Firmware : PF2OA21B
Serial Number : PFD201S2UUW2HJ
Disk Size : 82.3 GB (8.4/82.3/82.3/82.3)
Buffer Size : 1719 KB
Queue Depth : 1
# of Sectors : 160836480
Rotation Rate : Unknown
Interface : Parallel ATA
Major Version : ATA/ATAPI-7
Minor Version : ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D version 1
Transfer Mode : UDMA/133 | UDMA/133
Power On Hours : 41983 hours
Power On Count : 4152 count
Temperature : 40 C (104 F)
Health Status : Caution
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, 48bit LBA
APM Level : 0000h [OFF]
AAM Level : 80FEh [OFF]
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _16 000000000000 Read Error Rate
02 100 100 _50 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 105 105 _24 000300BF00BD Spin-Up Time
04 _99 _99 __0 000000001066 Start/Stop Count
05 100 100 __5 00000000000A Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 100 _67 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 100 100 _20 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 _95 _95 __0 00000000A3FF Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _60 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0C _99 _99 __0 000000001038 Power Cycle Count
C0 _95 _95 _50 000000001786 Power-off Retract Count
C1 _95 _95 _50 000000001786 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 137 137 __0 004B00050028 Temperature
C4 100 100 __0 00000000000A Reallocation Event Count
C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000001 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
CrystalDiskInfo 6.2.1 (C) 2008-2014 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
OS : Windows 7 Professional SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
Date : 2014/10/14 4:31:23
-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
+ ATA Channel 0 (0) [ATA]
- HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H21N ATA Device
+ ATA Channel 1 (1) [ATA]
- HDS728080PLAT20 ATA Device
+ Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller [ATA]
- ATA Channel 0 (0)
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
- NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller [SCSI]
-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) HDS728080PLAT20 : 82.3 GB [0/1/0, pd1]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) HDS728080PLAT20
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : HDS728080PLAT20
Firmware : PF2OA21B
Serial Number : PFD201S2UUW2HJ
Disk Size : 82.3 GB (8.4/82.3/82.3/82.3)
Buffer Size : 1719 KB
Queue Depth : 1
# of Sectors : 160836480
Rotation Rate : Unknown
Interface : Parallel ATA
Major Version : ATA/ATAPI-7
Minor Version : ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D version 1
Transfer Mode : UDMA/133 | UDMA/133
Power On Hours : 41983 hours
Power On Count : 4152 count
Temperature : 40 C (104 F)
Health Status : Caution
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, 48bit LBA
APM Level : 0000h [OFF]
AAM Level : 80FEh [OFF]
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _16 000000000000 Read Error Rate
02 100 100 _50 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 105 105 _24 000300BF00BD Spin-Up Time
04 _99 _99 __0 000000001066 Start/Stop Count
05 100 100 __5 00000000000A Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 100 _67 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 100 100 _20 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 _95 _95 __0 00000000A3FF Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _60 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0C _99 _99 __0 000000001038 Power Cycle Count
C0 _95 _95 _50 000000001786 Power-off Retract Count
C1 _95 _95 _50 000000001786 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 137 137 __0 004B00050028 Temperature
C4 100 100 __0 00000000000A Reallocation Event Count
C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000001 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
As you can see it has A LOT of hours logged on it. I don't run it 24/7, just about 14hrs a day equating to this thing being on for almost 5 years straight (amazed it lasted so long)
I don't really know what all the thresholds and current status mean aside from this thing is way past the thresholds listed. Seek error rate to me means it can't find whatever it's looking for and probably causing whatever program is running to bog down...so any clarification on what the items in the report mean would be appreciated (just the major ones, I know this thing is a dud)
So again, new/faster hard drive help improve in fps at all? And will it actually increase load times for games? I also play Diablo 3 and entering world/rift can take up to 20 seconds..so would I finally be able to enter asap?
PC is an old Gateway GT5228 model thats been made from other pc's. Mobo I think is stock Phoenix Technologies, have 5gigs of ram, windows 7 x64 AMD athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz with a Radeon HD 7750 (Sapphire Model) 1Gig DDR5
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