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<blockquote data-quote="Geeky1" data-source="post: 599361" data-attributes="member: 34442"><p>Oh. My mistake, I figured it was an older one. You won't see as much of a bump in transfer rates (and thus decrease in program load times) by going to a newer hard drive as you would in an older machine. The drive that's in there is already a 7200RPM drive.</p><p></p><p>However, based on the age of the system I doubt it will hit much more than 45MB/s. A newer, smaller capacity drive like an 80 or a 120 or something might manage to hit 50-55; which is a significant but not earth-shattering difference. But, if someone can confirm that that machine will take >128GB drives, I'd look at a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148139" target="_blank">Seagate Barracuda 10 320GB/7200RPM/16MB cache</a> drive (couldn't find a UK computer parts website...). That thing should come close to 70MB/s in the right conditions. And 40-45ish to 70MB/s is very significant. I'm gonna pm someone and ask them to poke their head in because I don't honestly know if that machine will handle large drives or not.</p><p></p><p>I assume you're going to max out the RAM at 1 gig?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geeky1, post: 599361, member: 34442"] Oh. My mistake, I figured it was an older one. You won't see as much of a bump in transfer rates (and thus decrease in program load times) by going to a newer hard drive as you would in an older machine. The drive that's in there is already a 7200RPM drive. However, based on the age of the system I doubt it will hit much more than 45MB/s. A newer, smaller capacity drive like an 80 or a 120 or something might manage to hit 50-55; which is a significant but not earth-shattering difference. But, if someone can confirm that that machine will take >128GB drives, I'd look at a [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148139]Seagate Barracuda 10 320GB/7200RPM/16MB cache[/url] drive (couldn't find a UK computer parts website...). That thing should come close to 70MB/s in the right conditions. And 40-45ish to 70MB/s is very significant. I'm gonna pm someone and ask them to poke their head in because I don't honestly know if that machine will handle large drives or not. I assume you're going to max out the RAM at 1 gig? [/QUOTE]
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