Does anybody with a fast computer find themselves waiting on their hard drive during defrag, virus scan, etc.?

Question

I have a AMD 939 4000+ with 1 Gig of ram in dual channel mode.
It's on a Asus Nforce 4 SLI 16x mother board. I upgraded from a Nforce 3 and a AMD 3000+ with 1 Gig of ram. The new hard drive is a Western Digital 250GB with 16MB of cache. I've done a lot of upgrading and the scanning etc. speed does'nt seem much faster. What's up with that?

Answer 1

They are resource intensive programs and I find it best to schedule them when you are at work or in bed. That's what I do anyway.

Answer 2

No matter how fast your new computer is compared to the old one, hard-drive speeds are hardly any faster than they were 5 years ago. Doing anything hard-drive intensive is a sure-fire way to slow any PC down, which is why I generally only do defrags and virus scans when i'm not at the computer (in the bath, on the loo, overnight, out shopping, while watching TV etc).

Besides - you shouldn't really be using your PC while it's trying to do a defrag anyway, as the defrag program will keep needing to restart as your actions will cause Windows to make changes to the disk.

Answer 3

i dont have any waiting time at all the defrag, virus scan, etc not a problem i can run my anti virus many anti spyware programs and open up 4 internet explorer's at the same time the webspage on Q&A is so fast i can get to anypart of computer& internet on Q&A fast

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Answer 4

scanning and defrag time depends of HDD speed, it doesn't matter that much what PC you have. Do you have a S-ata Hdd?
At the changes you made you will not experience an impressive speed up of the computer, from 2 GHz up is little difference, what counts is the Ram, and Video card.

Answer 5

Yes. I do the virus scan once a week just before I run errands or whatever. I do a disk clean up, and defrag just before I shut down.

Answer 6

OF COURSE virus scan takes about 2 hours and defrag can seem to take forever.

Answer 7

Try disabling your windows default animation and other effect.

Set the virtual memory size correctly. It should be Actual X 1.5 as minimum, Actual X 3 is maximum.

But i still doubt some hardware clash is there. Try to find in the web by your hardware model number for supported other hardware models. And I doubt it is the RAM is causing the issue.

Answer 8

if you defrag everyday before you shut your pc down it will only take about 90seconds unless you have installed and uninstalled programs then it will take a couple of mins, but must be done everyday or it will take about 15-30mins, as far as virus protection goes, you dont need it as long as you dont download anything that your not suppose to, because it eats alot of your cpu and ram causing your pc to be slower, i have 3.0 p4ht, with 3gigs ddr2 ram, a 7800gt nivida and a 10000rpm raptor hdd

Answer 9

I dont think its the computer i think these are just slow cause they check every single file on you computer. I ran mine like 2 days after I bought my computer and it took forever

Answer 10

i don't know .Srry.