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sdedalus83:
You don't need a new hard drive.  Set up your page file on a separate partition, defrag every couple of weeks, and don't download torrents to the same partition on which your OS and applications are installed.

Klocknov:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113

Those both have free shipping so that could be worth the extra to go that route, all depends on how much shipping the hard-drive will be to where you live. I find that I would go the little bit up since I normally get hit with 5-7 on shipping. Though have you checked your NIC drivers and made sure they were up to date or if they were up to date tried rolling them back one or two sets? I know I had to get mine all the way up to date to fix a random drop problem I had.

kureshii:
Unless your application is portable (keeps settings in a file, doesn't write to registry, doesn't need system-specific libraries, runs on any other system with the same OS without reconfiguration), it might not work again after a reformat. Backing it up doesn't guarantee it'll work.

Consider replacing the apps you use with portable versions, and reformatting should be much less of a pain.

Also, reformatting should not be used as a regular system cleanup measure; it would be best if you can figure out what's causing the issue. I would be curious about why your internet connection gets laggy every few months... are you sure it's your connection being laggy, or is it your system?


--- Quote from: Drew on October 23, 2009, 12:21:24 AM ---If you insist on getting a single drive just for your OS, though, I'd go with a small SSD. They're fairly cheap at low capacities and are way better performance wise.

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LMAO... he's going for the cheapest drive he can find, and you're recommending an SSD? ;) The ones that are cheaper than hard drives are not faster than hard drives, sadly... the cheapest small SSD I would recommend would be something like the OCZ 30GB Vertex (or an equivalent drive using Indilinx firmware).

For a small budget I'd go for a decent-sized WD Black, and keep documents (large video files, images), as well as the pagefile and temp folder, on the old hard disk. It might bump up the budget a bit since the smallest Black is 500GB, but if that's still too pricey, the Blues are decent performers for the price as well.


--- Quote from: sdedalus83 ---You don't need a new hard drive.  Set up your page file on a separate partition, defrag every couple of weeks, and don't download torrents to the same partition on which your OS and applications are installed.
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+1

Klocknov:

--- Quote from: kureshii on October 23, 2009, 12:27:01 AM ---Unless your application is portable (keeps settings in a file, doesn't write to registry, doesn't need system-specific files), it might not work again after a reformat. Backing it up doesn't guarantee it'll work.

Consider replacing the apps you use with portable versions, and reformatting should be much less of a pain.

Also, reformatting should not be used as a regular system cleanup measure; it would be best if you can figure out what's causing the issue.

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+1

fohfoh:
I agree. Unless your current is a 5400 rpm drive, basic software maintenance should suffice.

Check tweakguides. It's useful.

Honestly, either it's a driver issue that occurs every few months, or you're getting viruses and stuff. Chrome is a good alternative if you think FF is too heavy. Or opera isn't bad either.

XP, starting to have issues. After Microsoft continually patched it, system now uses around 70000-80000kb instead of the original 30000-40000. Have you considered looking for/blocking optional updates that may be causing issues? like... .net?

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