If I buy a  larger hard drive for my system, will the performance of my processer decrease?
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In your mind, picture a few hourglasses.  One is for one minute, one is for five minutes, one is for an hour.\n\nThe ends of all three glasses vary in size, but the necks of all three glasses are the same diameter.  The rate of falling sand in all three is the same.\n\nIt's not the storage that slows you down, it's the transfer rates between physical hardware and RAM.  Hard drive speeds of 5400 RPM are okay, but 7200 RPM is better (the faster it turns, the more data is read per second).  \n\nIf you're worried that the size of your programs are large, then increase your RAM as well and think about increasing your RAM cache.  If often used data is cached in RAM, it will be accessed faster than by using hardware.  (To use another analogy, a propellor airplane will never be as fast as a jet because it has moving parts.)\n\nFinally, don't let anyone tell you to change processors if yours is working fine now.  Again, it's the hardware bottleneck you need to worry about: the motherboard, not the chip.  If the PC is slow, it's because the motherboard isn't fast enough.  The reason one should swap hard drives is for storage space, not speed.
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well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
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Get a faster CD drive or processor and maybe more RAM.
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you need some more space on your pc are you need to delete something to make room it will run good if you do.
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Where your thought process makes sense (less space to look for files means faster lookup time) it isn't a matter of size of hard drive that will effect speed.  Spped of a pc relies more heavily on RAM and Processor speed.  Think of it as this, \nThe hard drive is your Brain, all the information you need is stored there, somethings run automatically, some you need to manually do.\nMemory is just that, how well can you remeber things, tasks, events etc.\nProcessor is your mind, how well do you recall tasks and information, and if you have an organized mind you can retrieve information much better if your memory is intact and your Brain is not malfunctioning.\n\nThe Computer works kind of the same way...Memory is used when accesing programs or files as to what the computer is supposed to do with the file (.jpg file=opens picture viewer) and the amount of memory you have determines how quickly that ionformation can be accessed (low memory means you have to override or slow down something else to get the information to come up).  your processor speed puts all the components together and determines how quickly the whole thing works together.  If you Hard drive is defragmented (scatter brained) it has a harder time telling the memory what to do and where the information is, and therefore the processor has to wait longer for the information to get there.\nIf its a matter of programs starting faster or files opening quicker, defragment your hard drive on a regular basis and shutoff any programs you don't need running (you don't need a fork and knife if your not eating).  Also delete old files you no longer need or use and empty the recycle bin (take out the trash).  Look into memory upgrades for your laptop.\nFinally, if its a matter of trying to get the internet to come up faster, well thats a whole different bag of worms, that depends on your connection speed, the sites traffic and bandwith, your processor and memory as well as which bowser you are using and how much junk is stored there.
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No.. It depends on your treatement to your hardware.. I have a 30 GB. hard drive since 4 years.. and it's running smoothly and very good without any errors.. then it can work for more..
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99% of it doesn't work and will make your computer go slower.\n\nIf you want to speed it up remove the things that load on start-up, de-frag your drive, remove un-needed files, and un-install anything you don't use.
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it almost re-orders all the files and data, gives you more memory and virtual memory ....\nIt doesnt fix it , it just compresses it better , so things can run faster and better\nhope that helps
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Not unless you're running them at the same time.  Computers are only as slow as the memory you have or use.  Hard disk space should never be used to it's maximum, always leave a Gig or two of free space to keep your system running smoothly.  Secondly, your Ram, as long as you are not running all the bells and whistles on your mac at the same time, it should be fine.
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Just about any native windows process will use virtual memory. \nTo get more you simply\n1. Right click My Computer\n2. Got to the Advanced Tab\n3. Under Performance click Settings\n4. Click the Advanced Tab\n5. Click the Change button at the bottom\n6. Select your primary hard disk, click the custom box and change it to you preference.\nI'm running a dual 3 Ghz Intel Xeon processor 2 gigs of RAM with 290 gigs of hard disk storage I have my initial size set to 1524 and maximum to 3048.\nNote: changing these values with use up hard disk space, it creates a file called pagefile.sys under C: the pagefile.sys file will take up however much hard disk space you indicate. Good Luck
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You simply does not need to compress your drive unless you run out of space. compressing will reduce the speed of your PC.
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Your RAM is too low... although the minimum spec <according to Microsoft> is 64Mb, with 128Mb being recommended you really need 256Mb minimum to get anything like performance out of it, double that again and you'll get a system that performs well\n\n\nAddition: Low disk space isnt an issue here, as you have 25Gb free on your system partition. Hard disc usage has very little bearing on a systems speed, at least not until theres less than 15% of the drive free, as then defrag wont run. A properly optimised drive can be as full as you like, as long as the data is in the right places...ie: by the time the drive head has read one piece of data, the disc has spun to put the next bit it needs right under the drive head, so reading appears seamless
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Nice question, You can add an infinite amount of Operation Systems with the limitation of space on your hard drive. The other guy is right when he says that you will have problems after 255. But the truth is that anything past 10 will slow down your computer sooooo much it will be worthless unless you have dual core. I advise you that you keep the limit on 4. If you need more then that, then by a dual core computer with a high amount of memory. Don't bother trying more then 5 on a laptop because it will probably fail. \n\nOne other thing with too many partitions is that the more OS's you have, the less space you have for one OS.
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Currently, you can get a laptop hard drive that spins at 7200RPM, matching most desktop hard drives. Your computer's performance will be much better with the faster drive. Even 5400 RPM will make a significant difference. You'll get about a 50% max read speed boost by going from 4200 to 5400, and about 100% boost going from 4200 to 7200, which translates into much faster opening of files and programs.
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For your answer i would say Yes Windows one does the job\nNow Defragmenting really depends  on how much software u download and install on  your comp. If u are like me  and like to test out new software all the time ( i install at least 1 or  2 new programs each week ) . Then You should do a proper defragmenting  at least every 3 to 4 months. if u are not such a regular  user of new software like me ..i think you could probably go a whole year without any  defragmenting and it wouldnt  really make much of a difference.
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it really depends on the system as to wheather or not it has the capacity to operate at a faster rate. chack out your system  such as the hard drive size[how many gig. it is] the cpu speed[pentuiam 2, 3, or 4?..800mhz?] how much memory you have? 64? 128?256? these will tell you if you CAN run faster after you clean you your system or if your just going to waste your time and sanity..hope this helps..
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The disk space it saves is negligable.\n\nHowever, it makes your files more secure than the old fat system.