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Do I have to buy a new hard drive to get more RPMs?

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JAWS1

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In fact, I guess I want to know if there is any way I can increase my RPMs without buying anything, in other words can I download something or make some setting changes? I have a 20GB Quantumfire lct2020, and I didn't realize it is only a 4500RPM, [don't laugh to hard I'm new to this computer stuff]! I have ran some diagnostics and it shows a less than half uncached disk speed 2.71MB/s of an average 4.56MB/s on similar systems. The tech people have told me about Scuzy and Promise66 or just buying a faster hard drive, but I about went broke buying what I have and was hoping, maybe, there was another option! Is there?? Had I known more about what I was doing I would have opted for the 7200RPM but I didn't, so if you know of something I would appreciate it? Please, unless you can tell me an easy way, I don't think I am capable of changing the bios or register. THANKS!!
 
No, no rpm throttles, but you can do a cheap raid config and get a fair performance gain.. I have an ATA33 Raid card... they can be had cheap..
 
it's a technical design issue..you cant just increase RPM on a hard drive..imagine if end-users could...there would be a lot of house fires...
 
turbo the sucker, hehe.

did you get some advise on the harddrive purchase, or were you $$$ shopping for the purchase???

anyway, you could go raid or just wait until you have about $140, then get and IBM 7200 of the biggest gig count you can find for the $$$. make it the master and slave your slower HD to it.

Editing the registry can be daunting but fairly easy with step by step instructions, however getting into the bios and changing settings is easy and you will need to learn to do this sooner or later.

baldy
 
Yep, the Quantum LCT HD's have a very slow rotation speed. Quantum at first tried to hid e the rpm specs from their spec sheet site for the HD's. All is says is 'sub 7200 rpm--12ms seek time--buffer is 128kb'.

It is definately a entry level HD, good for storage only.
 
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