I read his post. My drive says it is 120 though, and even just doing 1000 divisions I only get a 110 GB HD. Using the 1024, I do get 102 Gb but shouldn't I get 120 if I divided by 1000?
What brand computer? If its something you bought at a store (HP, Dell, Gateway, ect) the extra space is probably used by their stupid software restore system
a computer shudln't really suffer much slow down until you get to below 2-3gb, this is due to the computer needing that space to move files arround to make things run etc, if you use disk defragmenter it makes the free space easier for the computer to acess thus making programs run faster.
What brand computer? If its something you bought at a store (HP, Dell, Gateway, ect) the extra space is probably used by their stupid software restore system [/b][/quote] It is Tagar Systems Multimedia Computer System. Off the shelf from Radioshack.
My Dell 2.2 Ghz Pentium 4 is running really slow. Probably because of out of 80 GB, I have about 6 GB free. So, I'm gonna get another hard drive and maybe some more memory. Do you think that buying the new hard drive will noticeably increase speed?
To be honest, probably not. 6 gigs is more than enough for virtual memory to keep everything decent. But its Windows, who knows.
having 2 hard drives is better than having one large one in my opinion. both are good, but i just like having 2. use one for storage, like music, video, pictures, programs you want to keep, and the other just for your games. this is what my dad does and his computer has always runned at a great speed. as for the Norton thing, Norton really slows your computer down. I have it on this one but I never use it. But yeah, you need to defrag your comptuer once a month, and run anti-spyware/anti-adware programs every other week. if you do this your computer will run just fine.
To be honest, probably not. 6 gigs is more than enough for virtual memory to keep everything decent. But its Windows, who knows. [/b][/quote] Actually, it does make a difference. I had less than 10GB left, and my computer was acting all shitty [AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (939-pin), 1GB of RAM, 2x60GB HDDs (RAID)]. So then I added in my 120GB HDD [formatted], and I moved off the files from my 60GB HDDs [which only counts as one, since it's on RAID], so that it'll be at least 50% of storage left on the 60GB ones. Once I did that. I defragged both hdd's and now everything runs perfect.
The thing was...I defragged it, but I dunno if it did it completely because it needed 15 GB to defrag correctly.