When does your HD grind the most? For the HD article

[ravedave]

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When does your HD grind the most? Thats where a new fast shiny HD should help the most right?

For me:
Windows startup
Winamp loading files
Compiling a VS project.
Starting Games.
When it hits the swapfile

What do you guys think?

Dave

 

[petery83]

for me, when it's defragging

...as well as virus-scanning/booting up

 

[mechBgon]

At work: when creating an Office2000Pro Administrative Installation Point, particularly for Disc 2. The daily virus scan comes to mind as well.

*hugs 15000rpm Seagate Cheetahs*


At home: uh... *thinks about it* ...I dunno, when loading games or game maps, I guess.

*sticks tongue out at 7200rpm Seagate SnailDrive, aka Barracuda IV*

 

[hurrikaane]

When I delete temp internet files.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
*sticks tongue out at 7200rpm Seagate SnailDrive, aka Barracuda IV*

Well if you don't love the poor thing, sell it to a good home. Like my machine.

- M4H

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: mechBgon
*sticks tongue out at 7200rpm Seagate SnailDrive, aka Barracuda IV*

Well if you don't love the poor thing, sell it to a good home. Like my machine.

- M4H

My computer runs even slower without it!

 

[ravedave]

Temp internet definatly hits the HD. Lots of small, widely scattered files.
I'd love to have 1GB of ram so 512 could be a ram drive for IE temp.

One way to work around that is to have a batch file that runs every night.

run cleanmgr /sageset:99 then set up a nightly batch file to do this sorta thing:

Date /t
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local Settings\Temp"
del /q /s /f *.*
cleanmgr /sagerun:99
defrag c: -v
defrag d: -v
exit

I call this from another batch file that consists of
cleanxp2.bat > out.txt

That way I get a nice txt file telling me what it cleaned the night before.

Have any of you used the "space monger" application? very cool.

 

[Macro2]

During S#x.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: ravedave
Temp internet definatly hits the HD. Lots of small, widely scattered files.
I'd love to have 1GB of ram so 512 could be a ram drive for IE temp.

One way to work around that is to have a batch file that runs every night.

run cleanmgr /sageset:99 then set up a nightly batch file to do this sorta thing:

Date /t
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Local Settings\Temp"
del /q /s /f *.*
cleanmgr /sagerun:99
defrag c: -v
defrag d: -v
exit

I call this from another batch file that consists of
cleanxp2.bat > out.txt

That way I get a nice txt file telling me what it cleaned the night before.

Have any of you used the "space monger" application? very cool.

Here's a thread you might be interested in, then: put your Temp Internet Files on a RAMDISK using Microsoft's RAMDISK driver

 

[ronnn]

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