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SSD envy

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cowzzwoc

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I am completely happy with my computer, but I REALLY wish I had better storage performance.

After reading so many reviews about SSDs this wish has become stronger and stronger.

I don't have the money to upgrade my system, but I'm trying to remember how to do an interesting trick to speed up my hard disk performance. As the win 7 rc is expiring soon and I need to wipe my system, I figured this would be the best time to mess with stuff

I read somewhere that if you take a large HDD (~1tb) and make the drive controller think that only the outer 150gb of the drive is accessible than you can quadruple the performance of the drive, as the head only spends time in the fastest portions of the drive and spends less time traveling across the disk.

I have two 150gb drives in raid 0, and Id like to shrink both of them to around 60 gb each.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this? I'm not talking about creating smaller partitions of the drive, but actually telling the drive controller to only spend its time on the outer 'x' sectors of the disk
 
Use Hitachi FeatureTool to "set max LBA", to limit the size of the drive's host-accessable portion.

Still, all you really need to do is partition it, that would effectively do the same thing with less danger and hassle.
 
thanks for the quick replies, I simply couldn't remember the terminology. Ill give it a try and see I notice any improvements..

I probably wont but, might reduce my ssd envy some what

any additional opinions and information are welcome!
 
Cheap hacks i may say, they give you a false sense of speed but in reality, the performance that matters in a busy/multitasked environment, access times, is the same or worse. Change train to a fast and quality SSD. You wont regret it and after a months use, especially if you're the "busy" type of user, you wont go back to hard disk drives for your main OS and Applications.
 
I've been wanting an 80gb indilinux drive for some time.

As a college student its hard to come up with even 250$
 
Its a luxury/enthusiast class product, as of now, and it hurts your wallet thats for sure. Keep an eye for offers on the ads, there are some kind of users that didn't really needed the SSD and sell them for their next cpu or gpu upgrades, mainly gamers.
 
Well, I've just decided to format a 60gb partition out of my 2x160gb setup... if i don't notice anything different. I'll just create another partition and format the rest of the drive

Thanks for all the help once again
 
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