What role does hard drive transfer rate play in everyday computer usage?

Question

The higher the transfer rates means....

Answer 1

The obvious answer is that faster=better. This would be the rate at which you can read or write bytes to disk.

But with an increase in the rate you'll only notice a difference if:

a) you're saving or reading large files from the disk (e.g. 500MB+)

b) your system is low on RAM, so the pagefile (c:\pagefile.sys) is huge, and memory is being swapped in/out constantly. This can slow you down, since the Harddrive is ALWAYS slower than RAM.

c) the computer is a networked server with lots (100+) simultaneous clients.

All in all, I don't think this is something you need to worry about. For home usage, whatever you have is most likely the standard, so you should be OK with what you have.

Answer 2

Ok, a higher transfer rate means you can manipulate data, such as copying and saving documents faster. A high RAM doesn't necessarily mean that you can be assured of faster data manipulation, but rather, RAM is the back-up memory where the processor needs ample juice to run a program more-efficient like, but to save and access data, it needs the hard-drive's transfer rate. With a higher transfer rate, you can also search for files quicker, especially having a fully bloated (of course I'm exaggerating, but what I meant is that your hard-drive's got a lot of files i.e music and video files already).

I hope this works, but the Best Answer should be given to fixedinseattle, who answered about pagefiles.sys. for giving you a more thorough, yet simple technical explanation.

Answer 3

Gigabit LAN demands all 8 conductors on CAT6 cable, even nonetheless it is going to artwork quicker than 7Mb/s. i would not be shocked that a router would not have plenty sustained Disk IO velocity. It probably would not have extra desirable than 128MBytes of buffer RAM. How enormous are your archives? Is the router USB connection USB3? or purely USB(a million.a million). bypass one area at a time to confirm the place the bottle neck is.

Answer 4

Do your own homework - you won't learn anything if we answer your questions. Read the textbook, do some reasearch on google, wikepedia, etc. and you might actually learn something.