My g/f has so many songs on here 120 GB harddrive so I want to know if I buy a external 1 TB hard drive (1000 GB) and hook it up by USB and then delete all the songs on the PC's harddrive will it be faster. I know 1 TB is a lot but it will set my up for life and it is $500. That comes down to 50 cents per GB which is a way better deal. Thanks.
2007-02-23 06:43:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I have 1 GB of RAM, how much to get 2 GB of RAM. I have a year old Sony Vaio
2007-02-23 07:02:46 · update #1
All right, I'll give you the definitive answer. Most of the other answers have part of it right, but none have ALL of it right. First off, 1 GB of RAM is usually plenty, unless you are a hardcore gamer or are into photo or video editing, or do a LOT of multitasking (multiple programs open & RUNNING at the same time. Multiple IE windows don't count, as you can only view one at a time. If you are, for instance, running an antivirus scan, ripping a CD & encoding it in MP3, and using Photoshop at the same time, I would say go ahead and buy the memory. If you are just using the external hard drive (HDD for short) as additional storage, fine. Music plays at such a (relatively) slow rate that the access and read speeds of an external USB 2.0 HDD will be fine for your purposes. You wouldn't even have problems streaming video from it. However, if you try to play a game from it (say, you installed Quake 4 on the external HDD), YOU WILL HAVE PROBLEMS. The external drive will READ it alright, but the transfer speed of a USB 2.0 is (theoretically) 480mbs. In reality, it doesn't even approach that speed.
Now, if you want more storage AND speed, consider adding an internal drive, either EIDE or SATA. Then, you can have the additional space without paying the speed penalty. Here is a little interface speed scale for you, from fastest to slowest:
SATA
EIDE
IDE
Firewire
USB 2.0
USB 1.1
I won't even go into serial & parallel-just too slow to even consider.
2007-03-02 06:16:19 · answer #1 · answered by Douglas D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might help a little; if you really want to spend some money to speed up your PC, invest in RAM (presuming you don't already have all that your system can handle), not drive space. If you have lots of music on your system, then certainly the extra drive is a good thing to have as well, but as a general rule, it's the amount of RAM and the speed of the processor(s) that determine the speed of the computer as a whole.
2007-02-23 06:51:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to back-up any data you want and then use recovery discs (you should have these from when you got your laptop - computers always tell you to make back-up/recovery discs)to set it all back to factory settings You shouldn't need to download any programs. There is also the restore option if you want - destructive (clears all data and programs installed after a certain point) or non-destructive, which just takes it back to an earlier time, but files and programs remain. You coudl also uninstall any unwanted programs, delete unwanted data and delete any internet files/cookies and so on and defrag your PC, which should speed it up, but it won't work as well as if it were taken back to factory settings. Best option is to recover it and take it right back to factory settings.
2016-05-24 03:01:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your internal hard drive is more than 90% full then it will make some difference.
The transfer rate of an internal HDD is much faster than an external USB drive.
If you have 256MB or less of RAM, increase that to 1GB. That will make more difference to the speed than an external HDD.
2007-02-23 06:52:28 · answer #4 · answered by gumtrees 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are running very low on hard drive space, it will probably make your PC a little faster. There are many other factors that can affect your speed, anything from overheating to spyware/viruses to not enough RAM.
2007-02-23 06:47:46 · answer #5 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for smooth running atleast 20% of total space must free in every partitioned specially OS partition
2007-03-01 20:51:12 · answer #6 · answered by vineet.nagpal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the rate of data reading/transfer on USB will be very slow compared to IDE, SCSI, SATA, etc.
2007-02-23 07:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by sidprak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the reason why ur computer is slow is because it has to many things to take care off ....so yeah i think u should do that
2007-03-02 09:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by sabinab2004 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋