How Do You Improve Hard Disk Speed?
Hard disk speed can significantly influence the computer performance. Even if the computer has powerful CPU, good memory, a slow hard disk can be a bottleneck in the computer. It could be expensive to replace the hard drive. One can do some maintenance and tuning to improve hard disk speed in a computer. Following are some of the things you can do to improve hard disk speed. De-fragment the hard drive at least once in six months. In the windows explorer, right click on the drive. Click on “Properties” menu. In the Properties window go to the “Tools” tab. Click on “Defragment Now” button. This will pack all the data in the drive together and improve hard disk speed. Run hard disk error check to improve hard disk speed. In the windows explorer right click on the drive. Click on “Properties” menu. In the properties window go to the “Tools” tab. Click on “Check Now” button. This will check and fix any error. Fixing error will improve hard disk speed to some extent. Enable write caching. In
