Strange... Low HDD space is smoother

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#1 AskanTale
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i have 160gb hdd

whenever my hard drive space is low like around 10gb my computer seems smoother. when its around 29gb it seems slower.

any idea?

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#2 Random__Guy
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I'm only guessing I dont really know for sure but maybe its doing something like when its low its only uses ram, and when you have extra hard drive space it's using virtual memory a little too much, I dont know? never had this problem.
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#3 TicTac8745
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Did you try defragging the hard drive at times?
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#4 AskanTale
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yeah i defrag once a while
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#6 Wesker776
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Most likely because data is being stored more closer to centre of the platter, therefore the disk needs less spin time to access data.
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#7 LouieV13
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Most likely because data is being stored more closer to centre of the platter, therefore the disk needs less spin time to access data.Wesker776
Is that aplicable to a 10,000RPM? Cause I used to have 4gb left on my 150gb and I just transfered all my music over to my 250gb and I did notice stuff is not as smooth but barely... I have 34gb left on my 10k rpm now
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#8 Wesker776
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[QUOTE="Wesker776"]Most likely because data is being stored more closer to centre of the platter, therefore the disk needs less spin time to access data.LouieV13
Is that aplicable to a 10,000RPM? Cause I used to have 4gb left on my 150gb and I just transfered all my music over to my 250gb and I did notice stuff is not as smooth but barely... I have 34gb left on my 10k rpm now

Well a hard drive is a hard drive, so I don't why see why it would be any different for a 10K drive.

Things should change once solid state drives become more common/bigger.

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