06-17-14 09:25 Kurt Weiske wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Windows 7

 KW> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Ed Vance wrote to Roy Witt <=-

 EV> I got it just before companies started putting DDR2 RAM in pc's.
 EV> But the 2GB DDR RAM I have in it seems to do good enuf, even though
 EV> sometimes I have to be patient with the box.

 KW> Take a look at your hard drive, especially if you haven't
 KW> upgraded it in a while or re-installed Windows. On a similar
 KW> system I was amazed at the feeling that it had with a fresh
 KW> copy of Windows.

 KW> Newer hard drives have bigger caches, which speed up access to
 KW> the drive greatly. Sometimes, dropping a new drive into an old
 KW> system can be a cost-effective way of speeding things up.

Thanks Kurt,

The HDD is a Western Digital 250GB I'm using in this XP box.
I haven't wanted to install another HDD as I still have pleanty
of space to "make sub-directories".

As I typed that phrase I thought of a saying I read some time back
that someone filled up the ROOT of their DOS C: HDD by having more
than 512 entries in it and was wondering why they couldn't make
any more Sub-Directories (or Write any Files to the ROOT).

I like seeing 4K Clusters used in this BIG HDD.

I will accept the 4K size much better than what I saw on my 486 pc
which had 8K Clusters on a 330MB HDD IIRC.
I sure hated seeing a big chunk of that drive being used when all
that was in the Cluster was a 30 Byte Batch File.   

Except for USB/Firewire400 External HDDs I haven't wanted any newer
HDD mounted inside the case.

Those Solid State HDDs or Hybrid HDDs sound nice from what I've read
about them, but I haven't wanted to bite the bullet and buy one of
them yet........

... An apple a day keeps the doctor away, a onion a day keeps everybody away.
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