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**koala** · 06-08-2009, 06:46 AM

Another thing that affects a hard drive's performance is the amount of free space on the drive. For a 160GB drive, there should be at least 25GB free space (15%). Also, defrag regularly.

Ideally, your 160GB drive should have a rotation speed of 7200rpm, use a SATA2 interface and have a 32mb cache, but small hard drives tend to be not as good so you might only have a speed of 5000rpm, IDE interface and 8mb cache which could make games feel slow and jerky.

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koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,415 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: does the hard drive matter? Another thing that affects a hard drive's performance is the amount of free space on the drive. For a 160GB drive, there should be at least 25GB free space (15%). Also, defrag regularly. Ideally, your 160GB drive should have a rotation speed of 7200rpm, use a SATA2 interface and have a 32mb cache, but small hard drives tend to be not as good so you might only have a speed of 5000rpm, IDE interface and 8mb cache which could make games feel slow and jerky. __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here