Hard drive not good enough?

Question

Hi I just built up a computer , with a 3.2GHz HT P4, 1 Gig DDR2 ram, but I kept my old Western Digital 160Gb 2mb buffer hard drive, and my comp is like glitching, the mouse moves and stops, the computer is slow loading, and it seems as though the HDD is always going? Is my HDD's buffer too small?

The hard drive came out of a sony oem computer with a socket 478 P4 2.8ghz, the new prosesser is socket 774. I have also updated all the drivers, bios etc.

Answer 1

Sounds like it. You may want to think about upgrading to a SATA drive spinning at around 5400RPM with 4mb-8mb buffer.

Better yet, if your board supports it, go with SATAII and pay a little extra for 7200RPM 8MB min. buffer.

And if you're serious about disk performance, go with 15K SCSI...but this is more common in servers and is priced accordingly. Hopefully, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives filters down to the masses...

Answer 2

The processor socket would have absolutely nothing to do with the hard drive. Are you using the same version of windows that sony put on that hard drive when it came with the computer or did you go out and buy a new fresh copy of windows and install it. If you are still running the version of windows that sony put on the hard drive it very well could be issues with your OS not liking all of the hard ware and it all going down hill from there.

Most of the time you can do that sort of thing with no problem but I have seen some people that have had numerous problems doing that and about the only thing that solves that is going out and buying a new copy of windows.

Answer 3

Hard Drives are one of the moving parts of the Computer. They rotate at constant 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM when used.

So an old Hard Disk is always slow. Since the motors slow off age.

I think u have caught a fait point a Hard Disk with only 2 MB Cache.

Try to get a new hard disk with 8 MB Cache and either 7200 RPM or 10000 RPM.

If you need further clarifications please get back to me.