06-17-14 09:25 Kurt Weiske wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Windows 7   
      
    KW> @MSGID: <53A16C8C.12965.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    -=> 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........   
      
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