My Dell computer runs windows xp

[Spungo]

Heh, 4GB RAM and SATA II. Partly like its 2006! :awe:

Most hard drives can't max out SATA 1. They can't even max out USB2. Hard drives really suck. My work computer lags out when running scripts on 5 CAD files at the same time. Performance Monitor says it's only doing about 10mb/s of writing, but that's still enough to lock up my web browser and interrupt music. It's entirely hard drive limited.

Here's a chart one of the older Anandtech reviews. Even the WD Velociraptor is completely useless:

w00t, party like it's 1996!

 

[escrow4]

I have 2 1TB EVOs in this work box so I don't get lag. I do get some rare music interrupts, which I put down to DPC latency which have eased since the latest BIOS updates, but I haven't use HDDs as boot for a long while now.