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How Do I Speed up My PC Drive's Speed 35Mg to 50-60?

by Thomasskins Jul 8, 2009 2:57PM PDT

How Do I Speed up My PC Drive's Speed From35Mg to 50-60Meg per second?

I recetly run a computer health check, everything was good or excellent.

EXCEPT - 1 Thing My Drives Speed is only 35Meg per second and the message i received was poor Sad.

I don't know a lot about PC's but I do know the basics after fixing this PC for allmost 4 years now (lol yes I know i ned a new 1 badly i am saving).

If you know what my prolem is, please post.
If you Think you know, dont be shy please post.
If you need to know more about my system specs, plz post I will reply ASAP!

Thank You to Everyone & Anyone who posts a reply to help me solve my only poor aspect of my PC.

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Are you talking about . . .
by Coryphaeus Jul 8, 2009 10:16PM PDT

transfer speed of the hard drive? If so have you looked at the drive's web page and found the specs?

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Dont know how to?
by Thomasskins Jul 9, 2009 12:56AM PDT

Yes the transfer speed of the hard drive, one problem though, I have no idea what my Hard Drive is called or how to find the website.
Do you know how I can find these things out?
Will my HD stats be in my computer properties?

Thanks for your fast reply!

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Hard drive transfer speed . . .
by Coryphaeus Jul 9, 2009 3:46AM PDT

is not changeable. All hard drives come set at max speed and there is no "tweaking". Since you told nothing about the PC as in make and model that's all there is to say.

There is a way to get more speed but this involves changing the hard drive. SATA is a faster speed as is PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) offered by Seagate.

If you're ready to swap drives and clone the old drive, I can help. But this is quite involved and requires opening the case, investigating the connections, verifying IDE or SATA, running cloning software, etc. If you have an IDE drive and want to change to SATA you must verify that your motherboard supports SATA drives. Then you'll need extra software to get Windows to recognize it.

Unless you have a desperate need, I'd leave it alone. Any mistake can leave you with a useless PC. At best you could run the recovery software (if you have any), but you'll loose everything else on the drive.

Swapping drives is not for the faint of heart.

Just one question: Why do you think you need faster speed?

Wayne

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I WANT TO THANK EVERY 1
by Thomasskins Jul 10, 2009 12:20AM PDT

Hi
Thanks for al of your replies, I do know my drive is a SATA as for motherboard it's MSI no idea if compatable with SATA, but by reading your response I think I am 99.98% sure now I SHOULD buy a new PC.

This was my 1st PC and was baught with my eye's closed you could say as I did not know ANYTHING about PC or the specs, now i do know that I need a Gaming machine and they are expensive, I have seen an OK one from Alienware but it has a K1 card to split GPU & CPU (I think).
I also noticed there was no Microsoft software e.g MIcrosoft XP/VISTA
would that mean that the PC is for gaming ONLY?

Could anyone please explain more about the K1 card with it's pros & cons, also if it is not too much trouble, could you give me some information on what type of specs i should be going for, i'm always so tempted to go for the highest RAM/Gcard-Etc?

I will have around

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by Bob__B Jul 9, 2009 12:36AM PDT

Can you provide a link for>>>>computer health check?

How is this HD connected?.....ide/sata?

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Dont know???
by Thomasskins Jul 9, 2009 12:58AM PDT

How is this HD connected?.....ide/sata? No Idea, how can I find out please?? I'm thinking sata only because it rings a bell?

Any further advice, THANK YOU!

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by Bob__B Jul 9, 2009 4:23AM PDT

Without a link to the test I can't run it on this 10yr old machine and see how it compares to your 4yr old machine.

Perhaps what your seeing is normal.

These hd speed test seem to perform in a wide variety of fashions and you can get quite a spread depending on which test is used.

Is this a laptop?

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 9, 2009 1:01AM PDT

"No you will not be fixing this."

I've had this question and in the end the machine's owner was unwilling to change the hard disk for higher performance drives. Even more so they had no experience in opening the PC case and thought it would be a setting.

Any setting that would make this test do better is likely already done.
Your machine passed, works so leave it alone.
Bob

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