How long did your old HDD lasted?

Anonymous User SG

MS recommends that it's at least 5% free. Anything lower, it will boot up very slowly. Try adding some junk and reduce it to less than 5% and boot up.

See how it crawls.

Personally, I will keep it at least 20% free before I move important stuffs elsewhere or delete unwanted stuffs.

How should it crawl if i reduce free space to <5%?

ndmmxiaomayi SG

How should it crawl if i reduce free space to <5%?

If you want junk files, I have a lot.

Install everything, then restart computer.

Then see how long it takes to boot up, compared to one with at least 20% free space.

MyPillowTalks SG

the 100gb on my C drive is almost up

now my games are on the D drive, which still have 300+gb

OT: why my HDD lights keep getting lid up even when i am not doing anything?

google say HDD crashing, virus(maybe 1 or 2).

Anonymous User SG

OT: why my HDD lights keep getting lid up even when i am not doing anything?

google say HDD crashing, virus(maybe 1 or 2).

Hey, mine had similar effects as yours... It would blink like nuts out-of-the-blue & the whole system lags quite a bit...

Btw, would flash games affect the 'reaction' time as well?
Because i've been playing a flash game & randomly it would spawn a "---.exe had stopped running unexpectedly." thing, then the whole system slowed down even more... :s

Anonymous User SG

Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

If you want junk files, I have a lot.

Install everything, then restart computer.

Then see how long it takes to boot up, compared to one with at least 20% free space.

Here's my test results (I did 2 test only though):

19% free (14.66Gb/76.32Gb)

Boot up till login pic shows: 1st- 1m 42s

2nd - 1m 39s Average = 1m 40.5s

From login till Norton AV status pop-up (excluding PW time):

1st- 2m 12s

2nd- 2m 23s Average = 2m 17.5s

(+30 sec till hdd completes all activity)

4% free (3.52/76.32)

Boot up till login pic shows: 1st- 1m 36s

2nd - 1m 41s Average = 1m 39s

From login till Norton AV status pop-up (excluding PW time):

1st- 2m 44s

(+50 sec till lower hdd activity)

2nd- 2m 35.5s Average = 2m 40s

(+53 sec till lower hdd activity)

(hdd activity @ that capacity just won't stop, so i pick a gap in which would happen after norton pop-up that seems to seperate 'quite-high' activity & 'morse-code' activity[I.e frequent clicking] )

Seems the same eh, for boot up...& relatively predictable time for almost full hd...

Any thoughts? =s

ndmmxiaomayi SG

LOL... probably one of those unaffected ones. Some people's PCs will slow down a lot when the hard disk doesn't have enough space left.

Anonymous User SG

LOL... probably one of those unaffected ones. Some people's PCs will slow down a lot when the hard disk doesn't have enough space left.

Hmm...really? Then any tips on improving the speed?

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